• alekwithak@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Hate this argument. No one ever discusses Fiat currency’s environmental impact.

    *Which includes literally, actually destroying the Amazon rainforest.

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      1 year ago

      Whataboutism. Bitcoin does not need to be proof of work. It’s horrendously inefficient.

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            1 year ago

            ethereum also has no supply cap. they are different technologies almost entirely.

            i would not call PoS bitcoin anything except p.o.s.

            there is still a pow blockchain running for ethereum, and there would be for bitcoin, too, and that is the blockchain i would call bitcoin.

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      1 year ago

      They talk about it all the time and the impact is much, much less.

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      1 year ago

      And not all crypto is proof of work, some is proof of stake, which actually isn’t too bad environmentally