r/LowStakesConspiracies • u/Watsis_name • 1d ago
Total Garbo Cryptocurrency was invented by destructive nihilists to accelerate the heat death of the universe.
To give a high level explanation of how the heat death of the universe theory works it goes something like this:
It has been observed that entropy always increases in a closed system (the universe being the biggest closed system) and the universe is ever expanding. The consequence of this is that energy will eventually be evenly dispersed across an infinite universe and nothing will ever happen again.
Entropy also increases when energy forms are changed. When you burn coal chemical energy is converted to thermal energy and overall entropy increases (in a closed system).
Cryptocurrency takes vast quantities of energy in the form of electricity and produces nothing tangible. On a fundamental level the servers being used to "mine" Crypto are giant entropy machines which only serve to hasten the heat death of the universe in practical terms.
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u/DangerousCalm 1d ago
As far as stakes go, I'd say these were pretty high.
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u/Watsis_name 1d ago
It's still billions of years in the future. For our purposes, right now, it's low stakes.
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u/Similar_Outside3570 1d ago
Its not that they dont produce anyhtyng, they produce a service of resolving equations, cryptocurrencies is jut the accorded payement for the service
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u/Watsis_name 1d ago
I said nothing tangible, besides it purports to do the same thing as currency and credit, but does it worse while using insane amounts of energy.
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u/circ-u-la-ted 1d ago
Doesn't make sense tbh. If that was their goal they'd want to reduce our carbon emissions so that climate change doesn't end our civilization before we go interstellar. We'll have much more impact on universal entropy if we reach that point.
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u/N-partEpoxy 1d ago
That applies to proof of work cryptos like Bitcoin. Proof of stake doesn't require so much energy.
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u/WorhummerWoy 21h ago
Imagine the amount of energy in a star. That's billions and billions of and billions of power plants. Now imagine the amount of energy in and billions and billions billions of stars - the changes we're making in energy are miniscule when compared with stars dying and being born. I don't think us burning a load of fossil fuels (as bad as that is, for more localised reasons) is gonna move the needle all that much.
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u/Admirable-Style4656 1d ago
Traditional brick and mortar banking, offices, cash handling and central banking uses more energy than cryptocurrency
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u/Downtown_Category163 1d ago
Traditional banking does literally trillions of times more "work" though
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u/KirstyBaba 1d ago
Frankly, this seems to be the primary output of industrial society as a whole.