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Re:Kazakhstan to restrict crypto miners amid power shortages by risyachka on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @01:23PM (#29097670)
"extremely limited utility for society" is harldy an argument.

It's limited today. In 10 years it can change many things for people (very possibly in areas that are not even close to crypto).

Going to space had hardly any utility, going to Mars even less. But on the way there will a TON of progress and discoveries made that will be used in medicine, manufacturing etc.

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Re:Kazakhstan to restrict crypto miners amid power shortages by oblio on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @01:24PM (#29097695)
Yeah, but meanwhile let's not burn the planet down.

Let's ban all resource intensive crypto-currencies.

If they're so good for society, surely they can be lean, too?

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Re:Kazakhstan to restrict crypto miners amid power shortages by crummy on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @07:02PM (#29101632)
> In 10 years it can change many things for people (very possibly in areas that are not even close to crypto).

Can you suggest some ways my life might be different in ten years thanks to cryptocurrency?

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