• Eager Eagle@lemmy.world
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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.