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Re:Coin Carbon Cap – PoW cryptocurrencies ranked by energy e... by jv0010 on Sunday May 16, 2021 @08:10PM (#27178578)
Chia (XCH) coin would be interesting to see on that list seeing it basis was being an eco friendly crypto
Re:Coin Carbon Cap – PoW cryptocurrencies ranked by energy e... by Milkman128 on Sunday May 16, 2021 @08:32PM (#27178715)
If you can account for the resources of each hard drive it kills
Re:Coin Carbon Cap – PoW cryptocurrencies ranked by energy e... by Taek on Sunday May 16, 2021 @10:32PM (#27179525)
There's probably enough data out already on how long hard drives last while mining Chia to make a reasonable estimate. It kills hard drives fast enough that a large percentage of hard drives which were mining at genesis are now dead.
Re:Coin Carbon Cap – PoW cryptocurrencies ranked by energy e... by agravier on Sunday May 16, 2021 @09:57PM (#27179305)
Indeed, we should also account for such material resources allocated or wasted by all proof-of-some-resource crypto.

Like the number of GPUS hoarded up by a non-ASIC PoW coin, or even the manufacturing of specialized miners.

Re:Coin Carbon Cap – PoW cryptocurrencies ranked by energy e... by c1sc0 on Monday May 17, 2021 @01:24AM (#27180307)
There actually is an estimate of this floating in the chia Keybase channel. I remember it being very low, but there are many variables. Even at 100x the estimate it came down to less than 10 million USD in CO2 offsets.