• alekwithak@lemmy.world
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      3 years ago

      Hate this argument. No one ever discusses Fiat currency’s environmental impact.

      *Which includes literally, actually destroying the Amazon rainforest.

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        3 years ago

        Whataboutism. Bitcoin does not need to be proof of work. It’s horrendously inefficient.

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            3 years ago

            Is Ethereum any less Ethereum since moving to PoS? Of course not.

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              ethereum also has no supply cap. they are different technologies almost entirely.

              i would not call PoS bitcoin anything except p.o.s.

              there is still a pow blockchain running for ethereum, and there would be for bitcoin, too, and that is the blockchain i would call bitcoin.

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        They talk about it all the time and the impact is much, much less.