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Re:Over 2 percent of the US's electricity generation now goe... by emurillo510 on Friday February 02, 2024 @02:50PM (#39233294)
it takes a lot of computational power to secure something so important like protecting a whole digital currency. you can only make profit by creating renewable resources in bitcoin ecosystem.
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Re:Over 2 percent of the US's electricity generation now goe... by realusername on Friday February 02, 2024 @02:56PM (#39233378)
If it was really a digital currency sure, maybe we could debate on that. But there's no way now the current real usage of Bitcoin is worth that much electricity though.
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