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minus-squareR0cket_M00selinkfedilinkEnglish11•10 months agoA fraction of what it takes for thousands of machines to perform rework of the same problem. This isn’t the good argument you think it is.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•10 months agoBitcoin miners aren’t doing re work, they mine the next block of thousands of transactions. There’s also the other side of the conversation that over 51% of the network uses green energy.
minus-square@[email protected]BlinkfedilinkEnglish0•10 months agoHere is an alternative Piped link(s): This isn’t the good argument you think it is. Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube. I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
minus-squareR0cket_M00selinkfedilinkEnglish6•10 months agoDamn, if you’d actually watched the video you’d know he spends about 40 minutes covering the issues with crypto as it’s crucial to understanding NFTs. Nice try, though.
minus-square𝚐𝚕𝚘𝚠𝚒𝚎AlinkfedilinkEnglish1•10 months agoBitcoin and “crypto” are fundamentally polar opposites.
A fraction of what it takes for thousands of machines to perform rework of the same problem.
This isn’t the good argument you think it is.
Bitcoin miners aren’t doing re work, they mine the next block of thousands of transactions.
There’s also the other side of the conversation that over 51% of the network uses green energy.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
This isn’t the good argument you think it is.
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
NFTs aren’t bitcoin lmao. Nice try though.
Damn, if you’d actually watched the video you’d know he spends about 40 minutes covering the issues with crypto as it’s crucial to understanding NFTs.
Nice try, though.
Bitcoin and “crypto” are fundamentally polar opposites.