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minus-squareThermoToaster@exng.memelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·6 months agoYeah let’s use the computing power of an entire country to pay for a small coffee.
minus-squareMentalEdge@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-26 months agoWhile that is an inherent component of how proof-of-work cryptos work, and utterly stupid, it’s not an inherent part of how to do blockchains. You can have a blockchain without consuming stupid amounts of energy.
minus-squarekameecoding@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·6 months agoYeah it’s called a database…
minus-squarewise_pancake@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 months agoThere aren’t a lot of distributed databases with no single owner and all writes are signed.
Yeah let’s use the computing power of an entire country to pay for a small coffee.
While that is an inherent component of how proof-of-work cryptos work, and utterly stupid, it’s not an inherent part of how to do blockchains.
You can have a blockchain without consuming stupid amounts of energy.
Yeah it’s called a database…
There aren’t a lot of distributed databases with no single owner and all writes are signed.