• HACKthePRISONS@kolektiva.social
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    9 months ago

    >There IS a problem of using the protocol (at scale) though, because it creates this
    unsustainable environment.

    this isn’t true. the protocol is still functioning fine. the problem is how people are using the protocol.

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      9 months ago

      And there’s no way to use it so that it doesn’t consume huge amounts of energy because of greed and because of how computers work.

      So very much a problem of using PoW.

      • HACKthePRISONS@kolektiva.social
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        9 months ago

        you can certainly use it: using the protocol to transact doesn’t contribute meaningfully to power consumption. power consumption is almost entirely in the mining.