Comment on Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure

• LandedGentry@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If bitcoin didn’t use 40 terawatts to mine and was more reasonable in its electricity demand then I don’t think that many people would care about it. It still wouldn’t make it useful but at least it wouldn’t be actively damaging the environment.

    We might even be able to find a use for it at that point. But as it stands now the energy requirements essentially make the technology not worth it given the very minor benefits.

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    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There are versions of cryptocurrencies that don’t use massive amounts of energy.

      Pick anything launched from Ethereum onwards.

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      • LandedGentry@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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      • Honytawk@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        And nobody uses those, so that argument is mute.

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    • LandedGentry@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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      • Mrrt@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        This is an argument for renewables, not fot shitcanning POW.

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• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I hate that argument because it’s already been disproven. People use guns to kill people, often in heated situations.

  If everyone wasn’t wandering around with guns in their pockets all of the time then they wouldn’t be the opportunity to shoot someone. Things would massively improve if the law was simply adjusted to not allow people to carry guns in public and they’re only allowed to own them in their house. The gun nuts will still be able to play with their toys, but the murder rate would drop.

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