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

• eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  wtf are you even talking about? What protocol specs?

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  • bigMouthCommie@kolektiva.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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      • bigMouthCommie@kolektiva.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        seems like you undrestand that market cap is irrelevant to the protocol design.

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• Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Want to suggest a better one?

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  • bigMouthCommie@kolektiva.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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