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Re:Mozilla Foundation pausing cryptocurrency donations by csbartus on Thursday January 06, 2022 @04:23PM (#29830409)
Finally an impartial institution goes after the crypto/climate question and will disclose the results in an open source fashion. That will be a milestone.

Perhaps the question is: do banks / fiat money institutions cause more damage to climate, or crypto mines. My gut feeling is a close tie.

Re:Mozilla Foundation pausing cryptocurrency donations by masegod on Friday January 07, 2022 @04:13PM (#29844898)
Regardless of the crypto/fiat question, gold consumes incredibly more energy, which is what bitcoin stands to replace
Re:Mozilla Foundation pausing cryptocurrency donations by koonsolo on Thursday January 06, 2022 @05:10PM (#29831062)
And when you talk about PoS, it's not even a contest.