misk@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoBitcoin miners win legal battle to keep mum about energy use [US]www.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square97fedilinkarrow-up1347arrow-down122
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minus-squareR0cket_M00se@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15arrow-down6·1 year 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-squareO_i@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·1 year 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.
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.