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Re:Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index by akvadrako on Saturday August 26, 2017 @06:03PM (#15107725)
Bitcoin can't move away from wasting energy - the entire design is based on that aspect.
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Re:Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index by leroman on Sunday August 27, 2017 @02:42AM (#15109470)
Ad discussed above, the solution may be moving from proof-of-work to a proof-of-ownership scheme which doesn't require as much power to run
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Re:Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index by akvadrako on Sunday August 27, 2017 @03:42AM (#15109621)
That's not bitcoin and nobody has demonstrated that any such thing is possible.
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