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Re:Most Crypto Developers Aren't Working on Bitcoin or Ethereum by latexr on Friday February 10, 2023 @01:28PM (#34743640)
> At least you can mostly just ignore “crypto”

But you can’t ignore its effects, such as the environmental impact. If cryptocurrencies had zero effect on the people who don’t use them, there wouldn’t be such a large opposition.

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Re:Most Crypto Developers Aren't Working on Bitcoin or Ethereum by layer8 on Friday February 10, 2023 @07:40PM (#34748174)
You are right, but I believe that ads are overall still much worse in their negative effects. It also wouldn’t surprise me if ad tech consumes more energy worldwide in browsers than bitcoin mining does.
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