News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Bitcoin consumes more electricity than Argentina. Parent comment

Re:Bitcoin consumes more electricity than Argentina by Hamuko on Thursday February 11, 2021 @07:41AM (#26100849)
Yeah, it's purposefully wasting energy. Facebook is only incidentally wasting energy as a side effect.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Bitcoin consumes more electricity than Argentina by Ariez on Thursday February 11, 2021 @07:56AM (#26100963)
Perhaps you should compare the usefulness of bitcoin versus Facebook when you consider the energy usage of both, intentional or otherwise.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Bitcoin consumes more electricity than Argentina by Hamuko on Thursday February 11, 2021 @08:08AM (#26101061)
I find both useless.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Bitcoin consumes more electricity than Argentina by Ariez on Thursday February 11, 2021 @08:18AM (#26101138)
Unlucky I guess.

I would hazard a guess you find crypto overall to be useless.

https://www.mastercard.com/news/perspectives/2021/why-master...

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Bitcoin consumes more electricity than Argentina by Hamuko on Thursday February 11, 2021 @08:38AM (#26101340)
>I would hazard a guess you find crypto overall to be useless.

No, I quite like cryptography.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Bitcoin consumes more electricity than Argentina by Ariez on Thursday February 11, 2021 @08:53AM (#26101498)
The context is clearly cryptocurrency here, not cryptography :).
[ Parent | on HN ]