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Lapitotapito
6y ago
I thought about this as well for a long time and a friend just switched from academy to the industry. She does math and statistics and stuff; She said she is fed up of writing papers with or without real usecases; Reproducability and co. Sh
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Lapitotapito
6y ago
Yeah thats not interesting or fun to discuss with you when you just bring up thoughts and not any source at all. It is a fact that bitcoin uses energy; There is no source of your claim of bitcoin using 'waste' energy. You also ass
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Lapitotapito
6y ago
Come on... State one of your claims with hard data and not just wishful thinking. Your bitcoin miner don't have load control to make sure they consume the excess power. They just consume as much as possible. And yes its still the same
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Lapitotapito
6y ago
This is not the point. 'waste' energy means energy which you could not have used otherwise. If it is cost effective to mine bitcoin in europe, then europe will just produce more energy for your usecase independently if it is usefu
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Lapitotapito
6y ago
'waste' electricity; Right. Not a single bitcoin miner in europe would use waste electricity; China banned bitcoin mining due to grid issues; So tell me again who has enough money to waste energy? Bitcoin is balanced by the energy
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6y ago
We are all right :D
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6y ago
I'm god. God is now writing to you: Please send all your earthy valueables (money, bitcoin, house paper, car keys etc.) to me. Thanks!