Bitcoin emissions alone could push global warming above 2°C: study from 2018

Re:Bitcoin emissions alone could push global warming above 2... by madacol on Sunday January 17, 2021 @09:45PM (#25817576)

Nobody has been able to come up with an equivalent alternative. The closest seems to be proof-of-stake instead of bitcoin's proof-of-work, but the security becomes weaker (which is basically the whole purpose of bitcoin), see https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/70807/how-does-p...

Is PoS strong enough to still be 99% as useful?, I don't know, these are all experiments

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Re:Bitcoin emissions alone could push global warming above 2... by Closi on Monday January 18, 2021 @02:31AM (#25819196)

Well it depends on what you are looking to achieve.

If you are looking for it to be a currency, traditional currency seems to perform better.

If you are looking to invest in some speculative instrument on the basis that the value is going up then Bitcoin and poppies seem to be good ideas.

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