• jaemo@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    Yes but 65000 TPS for Bitcoin would likely have the planet glowing much brighter in the infrared… possibly even the visible, for all the heat we’d need to dump.

    A rich, warm, and sterilized world!

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      8 months ago

      I’m personally advocating for Ethereum which is Proof of Stake and uses a fraction of the energy Bitcoin does.

      However, correct me if I’m wrong here because I’m not that much invested in bitcoin as a tech or investment, but isn’t almost half of the energy used on bitcoin generated from renewables? I could swear I saw an article about it somewhere.

      Although nowadays people seem busy heating up the world telling AI to cheat on their homework, so I wonder if this is a problem with society rather than technology.

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        8 months ago

        It may very well be renewable. I’m really more referring to the inefficient way in which the sums are calculated. Those data centers get warmish.

        And yeah, AI is just the next thing we decided to punish our GPUs with. Crazy how we’ve used that part of the computer these last few decades…

        I’m more engaged in a chat gpt session that I am staying up till 4 am watching line graphs of crypto prices, guilty as charged 😁. Not sure what comment it makes about society other than “we seem pretty lonely, everything ok?”