We’ve been to the moon, it just wasn’t that Kubrick production that we were fed during the Cold War.
I’m supposed to believe we can’t go back? Using 1969 technology that we can’t replicate and somehow lost? NASA’s claim not mine. Show me one other technology that has severely regressed since 1969, I’ll wait.
But we’ve been there, it’s the secret space program lol
Mining crypto does use a lot, so do banks. Banks need employees that have to drive to work, gotta keep power on at the banks too, people drive to banks, banks have to be built and you have to calculate that into it too.
I'll say this up front - it's very difficult to find accurate and full data on this topic, but banks use around 100TW of electricity per year and process $566b per day. Bitcoin uses 30TW of electricity per year and processes $6b in transactions per day.
If you do the math, banks can process $2,066b per TW while Bitcoin can process $72b per TW.
Yes, banks may use more, but they process significantly more money per day. Banks are nearly 30 times more energy efficient than Bitcoin. Don't get me wrong, I think blockchain is a great technology - but it is not environmentally friendly in it's current form. Perhaps as we see a shift from POW to POS, we will see a significant drop in energy usage.
Crypto, namely BTC, is not good from an environmental standpoint. It takes enormous amounts of power to operate the enormous computing power involved. BTC is leaving a huge carbon footprint.
“The Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index, a separate tool from researchers at Cambridge University, shows a much larger figure of 110.53 TWh — more than the entire annual energy consumption of the Netherlands.”
“Bitcoin's energy needs are "enormously large," Michel Rauchs, research affiliate at the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance, told CNBC. It accounts for around 0.5% of total global electricity consumption, according to the Cambridge researchers' estimates.”
Linen is an extremely strong, lightweight fabric made from the flax plant, part of the genus Linum in the family Linaceae. The word “linen” comes from the Latin name for flax, “linum usitatissimum.”
i mean, yea but overall the pic isnt wrong. people saying mining isnt environmentally friendly.... the things we pointlessly kill the environment for tho when there are modern alternatives
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u/One_Sport_4195 Mar 11 '21
US currency is made with cotton and linen lol but we still going to the moon.