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Re:Mozilla Foundation pausing cryptocurrency donations by QuadrupleA on Thursday January 06, 2022 @11:53PM (#29835077)
But is the Kilowatt dollar idea based on irrevocably wasting the energy, i.e. on useless hash puzzles?
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Re:Mozilla Foundation pausing cryptocurrency donations by Quindecillion on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @01:22AM (#29888233)
"Wasted" is a value judgement. Miners put the effort in to procure the energy and then choose to spend it on hashes. It is by definition not wasted.

You know Christmas lights in the USA use up more energy than the Bitcoin network does for the same period? Is that "wasted"? Ultimately that's up to the spenders of that energy to decide.

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