▲ 989 ▼ Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption (www.tomshardware.com) submitted 2 years ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world 359 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] an0nym0us@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Halcyon@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) I don't defend anything - I simply do not consider the existing crypto assets as an alternative to currencies at all. They are still so far from being reliable or stable to be a good means of general exchange. They have their place in the area of investment and speculation and that works fine for me. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] FaceDeer@kbin.social -3 points 2 years ago How about stabletokens, many of which are pegged directly to the value of the USD? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Halcyon@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) I don't defend anything - I simply do not consider the existing crypto assets as an alternative to currencies at all. They are still so far from being reliable or stable to be a good means of general exchange. They have their place in the area of investment and speculation and that works fine for me. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] FaceDeer@kbin.social -3 points 2 years ago How about stabletokens, many of which are pegged directly to the value of the USD? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social -3 points 2 years ago How about stabletokens, many of which are pegged directly to the value of the USD? permalink fedilink source parent