☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 7 months agoEvery Bitcoin payment 'uses a swimming pool of water'www.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up123arrow-down112
arrow-up111arrow-down1external-linkEvery Bitcoin payment 'uses a swimming pool of water'www.bbc.com☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square12fedilink
minus-squarehabanhero@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down2·7 months agoUmmm, all of the examples you gave are actually more reasonable and valuable uses of water than Bitcoin. SelfAwareWolf is that you?
minus-squareFenrisulfir@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·7 months agoDestroying the Amazon for beef is a better use? Swimming pools are better uses?
minus-squarehabanhero@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down2·edit-27 months 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.