Re:A faster, more efficient cryptocurrency
by woodruffw on Monday February 18, 2019 @07:00PM
(#19195622)
> There is no reason to single out Bitcoin. To blame it for environmental problems is special pleading or privileging a hypothesis.
It's not special pleading if I'm equally annoyed by Ferraris and other environmentally disastrous forms of conspicuous consumption. I don't know enough about Hello Kitty backpacks to have a serious reason to be against them.
It's perfectly consistent for me or anyone else to leave a negative comment about Bitcoin on an online forum and then as much or far more to tackle a different issue that I/they consider pressing. And this, largely, is how it seems to be playing out: nobody has been arrested for using wasteful PoW schemes yet, because we have bigger fish to fry.
It's not special pleading if I'm equally annoyed by Ferraris and other environmentally disastrous forms of conspicuous consumption. I don't know enough about Hello Kitty backpacks to have a serious reason to be against them.
It's perfectly consistent for me or anyone else to leave a negative comment about Bitcoin on an online forum and then as much or far more to tackle a different issue that I/they consider pressing. And this, largely, is how it seems to be playing out: nobody has been arrested for using wasteful PoW schemes yet, because we have bigger fish to fry.