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Re:Microsoft has sunk a data centre in the sea to investigat... by rtkwe on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @10:54AM (#17247624)
But that isn't an inherent fact of a diamond. Mining them doesn't require that people lose their lives it's a fact of shitty people. And most diamonds consumers will encounter aren't from that stream.
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Re:Microsoft has sunk a data centre in the sea to investigat... by bduerst on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @12:36PM (#17248580)
Yep. Human nature is a different problem set altogether from being intentionally designed to waste electricity.
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Re:Microsoft has sunk a data centre in the sea to investigat... by gnode on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @07:10PM (#17251916)
> intentionally designed to waste electricity.

I strongly doubt the intention was to waste electricity, more likely it was incidentally designed that way, as it's difficult to conceive how you could create such a decentralized cryptocurrency without proof-of-work (at least at the time).

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