Over 2 percent of the US’s electricity generation now goes to bitcoin::US government tracking the energy implications of booming bitcoin mining in US.

  • BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca
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    5 个月前

    Good. Most don’t use proof of work anymore because they don’t feel the need to watch the world burn for no reason other than propping up techno bros.

      • ikapoz@sh.itjust.works
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        5 个月前

        If governments started regulating bitcoin because it was proof of work based then people aren’t going to pump real money into another proof of work scheme to replace it - why would they take the risk of it happening again when there are alternatives? the mining profit margins would disappear and so would they.

        • WhiteHawk@lemmy.world
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          5 个月前

          It woulf take years and years to pass such a ban in a significant number of countries - assuming they would ever want to cooperate on this, that is