Re:Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge
by ClumsyPilot on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @12:58PM
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If a heroin dealer is imprisoned, his customers could have severe withdrawal. Some might even die from it.
2. For all their many flaws, those industries also provide something of value. If they shut down tomorrow, people would miss having cars, pesticides, fuels, medications, etc. but if every cryptocurrency suddenly halted tomorrow nobody outside of a few speculators would find their daily life any different. That doesn’t mean that those externalities aren’t real and don’t require action but they’re widespread because there is some kind of real value to society and you’d need a transition plan to avoid disrupting a lot of processes.