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Re:Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day... by Voloskaya on Monday February 15, 2021 @05:20PM (#26148304)
Ah yes the good old "but something worse already exists therefore it is ok" argument. Always very effective.
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Re:Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day... by cortic on Monday February 15, 2021 @07:56PM (#26149736)
more like; "but the amount of electricity is so insignificant to us that we use more doing absolutely nothing"
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Re:Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day... by read_if_gay_ on Monday February 15, 2021 @06:14PM (#26148932)
GP didn’t conclude “therefore it is ok”.
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Re:Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day... by trident5000 on Monday February 15, 2021 @08:42PM (#26149984)
More like theres hundreds of things in the world that use more energy than BTC like gaming, gold mining, existing banking infrastructure, social media servers, etc - and the comparison is stupid in the first place. People just want to virtue signal because they dont like other people getting ahead of them and they didnt invest. Thats the crux of the outrage just like people get into stock investment wars.
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