That said, I'm totally open to new hobbies.
For now. As its usage goes up, its energy consumption will go up, <<by design>>. It's crazy that we're even talking about a <<currency>> (!!!) using this much power.
> It's the oil companies who are boiling the world but nobody dares to touch them.
We are working on all of that, I guess you haven't been following the news. It's not easy, but we are.
> The cars, the factories, the developed nations and their comfortable lifestyles supported by such a highly polluting economy.
Same. Electric cars, environmental regulations for factories, increased energy efficiency for houses, etc.
> China is the most polluting country in the world, but will the US, Europe stop trading with it? No.
China's working on it and the US and EU are actually kind of gearing up towards a trade reduction.
> No. How will the west survive without its cheap consumer products? The very computers we're posting this on?
These computers are also used for work, hobbies, making people's lives better.
> No, I refuse to care. It's a drop in the ocean compared to the real problems that no government will lift a finger to solve.
It's not a drop. It's something we created about a decade ago and it uses up a 100th of the energy the entire world is using. That's crazy. And those real problems are being tackled, you just don't know it or refuse to see or think it's simple and easy to solve.
Okay. Let's wait for them to solve the big problems first before we focus on inconsequential stuff like cryptocurrency. Once that's taken care of, we'll see if proof of work remains an issue.
It has doubled in the past 6 months. And gone up 10x over the past 4 years. How many more times can it go up 10x before you would consider it no longer nothing, and now a concern for the world?
The first rule of holes is "stop digging". We are in a hole with energy consumption. And we've set off an automated digger to sit next to us. People are shouting, if we want to get out of this hole, yes we need to fill it, but first need to do something immediately about this automated digging machine.
In my option (and I'm not singling you out as many in crypto feel this way), it is incredibly backwards for anyone to both say stopping climate change and energy consumption is a priority - and that promoting a growing energy beast isn't a huge concern to be addressed.
I don't like these posts claiming cryptocurrency is literally destroying the world and must be banned or regulated out of existence. Those need a reality check, and the reality is cryptocurrency is not even 1% of world energy consumption.
It’s fine to hope that things might be different, but making decisions and plans based on that hope seems…imprudent.
Find a better hobby =/ This casino is not worth boiling the world.