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Re:/R/PixelArt Update: NFT Posts Are Now Banned by onion2k on Thursday December 30, 2021 @04:07PM (#29741439)
The fact that other activities waste energy doesn't mean NFTs aren't wasteful. It means that there are two wasteful activities.

You cannot argue that the relative merits of two bad things makes one of them good, or even "not bad". That's not how anything works. Objectively bad things are always going to be bad no matter what else happens.

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Re:/R/PixelArt Update: NFT Posts Are Now Banned by hrhrhrhrhr on Thursday December 30, 2021 @05:40PM (#29742389)
Energy usage of ETH would've been exactly the same whether those artists or anyone else created NFTs.

So the comparison with gaming is not really correct. Playing PS5 consumes energy in a direct way. Creating an ETH transaction doesn't consume much more energy than vising a website.

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