Re:Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge
by Valgrim on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @02:51PM
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The issue is not scarcity, it's pollution.
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Re:Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge
by drdeca on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @02:59PM
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In a sense, we could say “lack of CO2 in the atmosphere” is the scarce resource which is being depleted.
( Maybe kind of like how you can think of something which can burn by absorbing oxygen, as releasing phlogiston (which is just a lack of oxygen, in a certain sense)? )