• @[email protected]
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    -24 days ago

    That’s as irrational as saying no-one can use EVs until we get rid of all ICE vehicles.

    • Echo Dot
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      24 days ago

      Wait but that’s like saying that as long as the world has at least one electric car the internal combustion engine can continue to exist without issue.

      If the vast majority of cryptocurrencies are still power hungry and the most commonly used cryptocurrency is power hungry then the fact that some of the others are better doesn’t really help.

      • @[email protected]
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        -24 days ago

        that’s like saying that as long as the world has at least one electric car the internal combustion engine can continue to exist without issue.

        No. PoS (EV makers) are not supporting the existence of PoW (ICE vehicles). In fact, one builder made a deliberate planned move from PoW to PoS. All new builders are PoS.

        the vast majority of cryptocurrencies are still power hungry

        False. Remove Bitcoin (>100TWh) and the only PoW coin in the top 10 is DOGE (~4TWh).

        • Echo Dot
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          13 days ago

          Oh great so if you remove bitcoin your argument works, trouble is, bitcoin exists

          • @[email protected]
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            03 days ago

            The only way to remove bitcoin is through redundancy.

            Support it’s successor technologies that improve on the design in every single dimension (including energy efficiency).

      • @[email protected]
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        04 days ago

        Your dislike of PoW is totally understandable.

        Bitcoin maxis who dismiss all other blockchains as Alts are very much like climate deniers. They illogically block improvements and efficiencies in the Bitcoin protocol (e.g. block size increases).

        However if enery usage is your main criticism then attacking PoS is like campaigning against wind or solar. We want PoS to completely replace PoW.