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Re:Coin Carbon Cap – PoW cryptocurrencies ranked by energy e... by matheusmoreira on Monday May 17, 2021 @11:05AM (#27184272)
I didn't say you shouldn't measure it. I said people are buying other things for their money. Simply measuring transactions/energy ignores all that. Monero provides decentralized trustless private untraceable transactions, Ethereum provides decentralized trustless transactions that execute smart contracts. The energy consumption is merely the cost of all those features.
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Re:Coin Carbon Cap – PoW cryptocurrencies ranked by energy e... by lottin on Monday May 17, 2021 @11:28AM (#27184548)
> The energy consumption is merely the cost of all those features.

This is a big assumption, and almost certainly untrue.

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Re:Coin Carbon Cap – PoW cryptocurrencies ranked by energy e... by matheusmoreira on Monday May 17, 2021 @01:06PM (#27185678)
Why?
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Re:Coin Carbon Cap – PoW cryptocurrencies ranked by energy e... by lottin on Monday May 17, 2021 @04:26PM (#27188020)
Because we don't know that any of these systems incurs the least possible cost in processing transactions with these particular features.
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