Comment on Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption

• bigMouthCommie@kolektiva.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  that market cap is a dumb metric to use to dictate protocol specifications

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  • eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    wtf are you even talking about? What protocol specs?

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    • bigMouthCommie@kolektiva.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      the specifications of the bitcoin protocol require proof of work. using the market cap to dictate what the protocol specification should be is absurd.

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      • eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        and who’s proposing that? I picked the top in market cap to illustrate what most relevant coins are doing because most of them are irrelevant shitcoins.

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  • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Want to suggest a better one?

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    • bigMouthCommie@kolektiva.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      uh... adoption, stability, code commits, forks....

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