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Re:Ethereum Plans to Cut Its Energy Consumption by 99 Percent by jacobush on Sunday January 06, 2019 @01:08PM (#18839613)
Half the point of a cryptocurrency is the network effect - so I don't see how your argument holds, at all.

It is not clear at all that a small political experiment will scale to a super power. It is equally unclear that a small crypto currency experiment will scale.

This is without even touching on how easy, or difficult to it is rally support for a new system. Quite difficult, I'd say.

Re:Ethereum Plans to Cut Its Energy Consumption by 99 Percent by darawk on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @12:07PM (#18857171)
> Half the point of a cryptocurrency is the network effect - so I don't see how your argument holds, at all.

It holds because you can demonstrate its utility on a small network.