Cryptocurrencies’ Carbon Footprint Underestimated

Re:Cryptocurrencies’ Carbon Footprint Underestimated by tornato7 on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @03:37PM (#28764513)

Early next year when Ethereum becomes PoS, it will basically be JUST Bitcoin that is PoW in the top 20. From a climate perspective, we can only hope that this narrative will cause Bitcoin to slide in favor of more green currencies.

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Re:Cryptocurrencies’ Carbon Footprint Underestimated by Syonyk on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @03:44PM (#28764606)

> Early next year when Ethereum becomes PoS...

Haven't they been planning to move to PoS "soon" now for at least several years? I hate to say I'll believe it when I see it, but... the believeability of their PoS timelines is more than a little suspect now.

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Re:Cryptocurrencies’ Carbon Footprint Underestimated by dorkwood on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @04:31PM (#28765189)

You're getting downvoted, but you're not wrong. Here's a comment thread from 2016 with people making the same "early next year" claim.

> Ethereum hopes to do away with mining by early 2017... They're switching to proof of stake.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12128406

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Re:Cryptocurrencies’ Carbon Footprint Underestimated by stripedfish7 on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @05:21PM (#28765767)

ethereum 2 is live and PoS :)

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