• etherphon@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Can we switch back to the need based economy instead of the greed based economy?

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    4 days ago

    If only there were a way to combine the two, then we could keep an even larger bubble going.

  • kubofhromoslav@lemmy.world
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    Crypto mining is (mostly?) total waste… Proof of Work by doing hard but useless calculations and using it as kind of currency is like travelers on a desert world use water as a currency - but by intentionally spilling it 🤦🏻‍♂️

    Great cryptocurrencies does not need power hungry hardware. Eg. Nano (XNO) have a secure network error or using around 17 000 000 times less energy per transaction.

  • leastaction@lemmy.ca
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    Hey, now that we have this obscene energy-wasting capability, let’s see what other ways there are to generate equally obscene profits!

  • jaykrown@lemmy.world
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    The difference between AI and Bitcoin is that people actually use AI to do productive things.