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Re:SolarBatteryBitcoin by krageon on Thursday April 22, 2021 @05:32AM (#26900646)
Literally every joule that goes into snapchat datacenters is wasted. It's not necessary, it doesn't make anything happy and it's primarily a way for a large company to harvest a lot of data on young people. Nobody wins with the way this power is used.
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Re:SolarBatteryBitcoin by UncleMeat on Thursday April 22, 2021 @08:43AM (#26902086)
But Snapchat has fixed computation needs. If they figure out how to run everything on 50% of the power, their emissions go down by 50%.

BTC has no such property. Make it 1,000 times more efficient to compute hashes and you just hash 1,000 times faster. No change in power use.

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Re:SolarBatteryBitcoin by makotoNagano on Thursday April 22, 2021 @06:31AM (#26901115)
You can make that argument for any piece of entertainment. why live? let's all kill ourselves, that way we won't use any energy anymore.
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Re:SolarBatteryBitcoin by krageon on Monday April 26, 2021 @07:06AM (#26941272)
You can make the argument for anything, because it's a dumb argument - perhaps the point was entirely too buried :)
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Re:SolarBatteryBitcoin by NullPrefix on Thursday April 22, 2021 @07:50AM (#26901685)
I like the way you think
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Re:SolarBatteryBitcoin by WanderPanda on Thursday April 22, 2021 @06:29AM (#26901108)
Is your comment any better?
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