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Re:My 40-liter backpack travel guide by kemayo on Monday June 20, 2022 @12:58PM (#31812643)
Vitalik's one of the founders of Ethereum, so I'd guess that "minimizing carbon footprint" isn't one of his primary goals.

(Yes, yes, proof-of-stake, claimed to finally be launching later this year. That's been "coming soon" for so many years that I'll believe it when it actually happens.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitalik_Buterin

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Re:My 40-liter backpack travel guide by paulpauper on Monday June 20, 2022 @03:54PM (#31814954)
"coming soon" for the past 4 years
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Re:My 40-liter backpack travel guide by kemayo on Monday June 20, 2022 @04:27PM (#31815442)
More like 7, I think? They were laying groundwork in 2015, at least. https://ethereum.org/en/history/#frontier-thawing-summary
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Re:My 40-liter backpack travel guide by yownie on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @06:16AM (#31822259)
I was actually pleasantly suprised to discover this post was written by him afterwards.

He's brilliant and still manages to be very approachable and down to earth. rare combo nowadays, especially in crypto.

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