Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge

Re:Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge by kaesar14 on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @12:15PM (#27196803)

Are you joking? There are plenty of conversations on Hackernews about electric vehicles, it just so happens that replacing every single car in the world with a totally different energy system is a way harder problem than banning useless cryptocurrencies that are burning energy to fuel equity bubbles.

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Re:Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge by shawnz on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @12:16PM (#27196829)

Only if you just consider how hard it is to ban, not how hard it is to replace while achieving the same utility.

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Re:Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge by ClumsyPilot on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @12:43PM (#27197350)

So instead of dolvibg the hard problem well focus on something easy and useless. SV moto in a nutshell

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Re:Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge by kaesar14 on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @12:56PM (#27197555)

You may have heard of this company Tesla based in Silicon Valley, one of the largest companies by market cap in the world, just led an electric car revolution that's inspired automakers worldwide to shift off IC engines

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Re:Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge by joshuamorton on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @12:59PM (#27197595)

No, it's addressing the low hanging fruit first. An efficient approach to solving a problem.

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