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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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