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minus-squareVictoria Antoinette @lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down4·1 year agothree raspberry pis would also use more power than 2. it doesn’t mean that Bitcoin is designed to waste power. it means people are willing to spend energy on mining
minus-squareMindTraveller@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoBut it could be done with 2. The third one is spending power for no common good.
minus-squareVictoria Antoinette @lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down3·1 year agonot for a common good, but the other two can hardly be said to be altruistic either.
minus-squareMindTraveller@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoExactly, it’s a system where everyone running the infrastructure is a greedy dick
minus-squareVictoria Antoinette @lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down3·1 year agothis is true of any other commodity extraction operation, though. lumbering, mining, fishing…
three raspberry pis would also use more power than 2. it doesn’t mean that Bitcoin is designed to waste power. it means people are willing to spend energy on mining
But it could be done with 2. The third one is spending power for no common good.
not for a common good, but the other two can hardly be said to be altruistic either.
Exactly, it’s a system where everyone running the infrastructure is a greedy dick
this is true of any other commodity extraction operation, though. lumbering, mining, fishing…