☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years agoEvery Bitcoin payment 'uses a swimming pool of water'www.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square11linkfedilinkarrow-up122arrow-down112
arrow-up110arrow-down1external-linkEvery Bitcoin payment 'uses a swimming pool of water'www.bbc.com☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square11linkfedilink
minus-squarehabanherolinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down2·2 years agoUmmm, all of the examples you gave are actually more reasonable and valuable uses of water than Bitcoin. SelfAwareWolf is that you?
minus-squareFenrisulfirlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·2 years agoDestroying the Amazon for beef is a better use? Swimming pools are better uses?
minus-squarehabanherolinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down2·edit-22 years ago Destroying the Amazon for beef is a better use? Swimming pools are better uses? As opposed to using them for Bitcoin? Oh yes, 1000%. The technology is interesting but the people and economics around Crypto is rotten to the core. Crypto as it is today is a shitstain on humanity.
Ummm, all of the examples you gave are actually more reasonable and valuable uses of water than Bitcoin.
SelfAwareWolf is that you?
Destroying the Amazon for beef is a better use? Swimming pools are better uses?
As opposed to using them for Bitcoin? Oh yes, 1000%.
The technology is interesting but the people and economics around Crypto is rotten to the core. Crypto as it is today is a shitstain on humanity.