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Re:Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge by dd36 on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @11:16PM (#27204135)
I’m sure businesses that rely on dumping arsenic into the local lake don’t like having their livelihood threatened either. Property rights matter. Right now the market is broken.
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Re:Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge by rantwasp on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @12:30AM (#27204601)
consuming energy (and paying for it) is not even the same species with dumping toxic chemicals
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Re:Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge by dd36 on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @09:17AM (#27208125)
Burning coal literally dumps arsenic into the environment.

And to do so for speculative fun is ridiculous.

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Re:Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge by rantwasp on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @11:47AM (#27210283)
i have some bad news for you when it comes to how lot of electricity is generated.

Also, how do you decide which computing is good and which computing is bad?

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Re:Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge by dd36 on Thursday May 20, 2021 @06:41PM (#27228352)
You do, do you? I suppose it is of the variety where miners magically only use clean energy?

Kill the value of POW as a store of money and see how much of that computing still happens. Then you’ll know how useful it is.

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Re:Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge by rantwasp on Saturday May 22, 2021 @10:50AM (#27247055)
nah. the bad news is that a lot of energy is generated with coal. so you get the arsenic and other crap with our without bitcoin.

now, the question is: who decides what’s acceptable and what’s not acceptable for energy use?

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Re:Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge by dd36 on Sunday May 23, 2021 @12:20AM (#27252427)
The government defines efficiency standards. I’d bet money some are coming for crypto soon.
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