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Re:Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge by Qwertious on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @07:56PM (#27202885)
You can do that by buying gold, or frankly buying any stock on the market.
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Re:Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge by atweiden on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @08:13PM (#27203021)
The S&P is actually down since 1970 as measured in gold. Gold is strictly worse than Bitcoin on every front save for its ability to be used offline.

(But even offline, gold transactions would require a great deal of care wrt anti-counterfeiting, and this is an edge case given gold’s primary use is as a speculative store of value.)

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