@[email protected] to TechnologyEnglish • 5 months agoJust 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumptionwww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square363fedilinkarrow-up11.02Karrow-down130cross-posted to: environmenttechnology
arrow-up1989arrow-down1external-linkJust 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumptionwww.tomshardware.com@[email protected] to TechnologyEnglish • 5 months agomessage-square363fedilinkcross-posted to: environmenttechnology
minus-squareEager EaglelinkEnglish1•5 months agoAnd 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.
minus-squareHACKthePRISONSlinkfedilink1•5 months agoyou can certainly use it: using the protocol to transact doesn’t contribute meaningfully to power consumption. power consumption is almost entirely in the mining.
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.
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.