Re:Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge
by wmf on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @02:12PM
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Globally, very few people have gaming GPUs. You're super-privileged and you're effectively arguing for locking in your privilege and making the other 90% of the world worse off. PoS puts everyone on an equal footing. You want to stake? Buy in.
Re:Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge
by sva_ on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @04:16PM
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PoS does not put everyone on an equal footing. PoS privileges those who got in early and had the money or hardware to acquire a large chunk of the coin.
It's ridiculous you talk about financial privilege. Who the hell do you think owns most crypto? You think it is people living on the streets in India? Children in Africa?
You sound super delusional. I can't believe it.
Re:Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge
by kd0amg on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @01:09PM
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You definitely are an edge case if you were already paying your utility bills in cryptocurrency. Otherwise, you spent fiat currency to bootstrap your use of Etherium.
Re:Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge
by sva_ on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @04:23PM
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I didn't mean that I pay my electricity bill in crypto. I meant that my small apartment has a fixed electricity rate so that I don't have to pay any extra for running 2 GPUs, and that I already owned the hardware to mine, independent of crypto. So I didn't invest anything. Sorry for being unclear.
Maybe I'm an edge-case (I don't think so), but I was able to use the hardware I already owned, and the electricity already included in my utilities bill to acquire enough Ether that would allow me to deploy a smart contract. That won't be possible anymore in the future. So you're factually wrong, at least in my case.