Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoOver 2 percent of the US’s electricity generation now goes to bitcoinarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square150fedilinkarrow-up1429arrow-down132cross-posted to: news@hexbear.nettechnology@lemmy.worldhackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fanscyberpunk@lemmy.mltech@kbin.social
arrow-up1397arrow-down1external-linkOver 2 percent of the US’s electricity generation now goes to bitcoinarstechnica.comLee Duna@lemmy.nz to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square150fedilinkcross-posted to: news@hexbear.nettechnology@lemmy.worldhackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fanscyberpunk@lemmy.mltech@kbin.social
minus-squareprole@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down19·1 year agoSomeone’s never bought drugs off the internet…
minus-squarePips@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down4·1 year agoJust because you can buy drugs with bitcoin doesn’t mean that those two things work the same.
minus-squareprole@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·1 year agoDid I say Bitcoin?
minus-squarezergtoshi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down2·1 year agoNo, but some people don’t know Monero and can’t grasp the possibilities that are available now, but haven’t been thought of before 🤷♂
minus-squareassassin_aragorn@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoWhat a great reason to create carbon emissions.
minus-squareprole@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 year agoMonero is ASIC resistant and therefore uses orders of magnitude less power than Bitcoin.
Someone’s never bought drugs off the internet…
Just because you can buy drugs with bitcoin doesn’t mean that those two things work the same.
Did I say Bitcoin?
No, but some people don’t know Monero and can’t grasp the possibilities that are available now, but haven’t been thought of before 🤷♂
What a great reason to create carbon emissions.
Monero is ASIC resistant and therefore uses orders of magnitude less power than Bitcoin.