cyrus
@cyrus
I’ve been researching ‘data warming’ for years, including blockchains. Bitcoin’s PoW energy use is rising, while Ethereum’s switch to PoS cut its energy use by 99.9% which is a win worth celebrating Energy use in digital systems is a real issue, but it feels like it's been overhyped for blockchains and embedded itself into the psyche of the public. Meanwhile AI and other computing face little scrutiny. Makes you wonder why?
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Nico Gallardo 🍄
@nicnode
makes you wonder… maybe it’s because it competes with the petrodollar https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/the-hidden-costs-of-the-petrodollar
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carter
@carter
i think it's one of the few "tangible" things most people can understand about crypto. especially without diving any deeper its easy to come to the narrative that it's "cash that burns tons of energy constantly" whereas AI uses a lot of energy, but the output and other effects (ex: job augmentation/replacement for writers/artists/eng/etc) is even more tangible and interesting for people
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Jon Commstark
@commstark
yup people love to find faults in ideas and systems because it makes them feel smarter than the creator/proponent
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matthewb
@matthewb
because folks on the left believe that "crypto bad" is the in-group accepted opinion that they should hold and energy use is an easy explainer for why. of course it's a superficial belief, they've probably never even thought about most of this stuff.
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misha 🪨
@mishaderidder.eth
how about streaming video (🤫all this porn lol) nobody is talking about?
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