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 ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  if they don't explain their methodology, there is no reason to believe they got it right

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  • eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    then there’s no reason to believe they got it wrong

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    • bigMouthCommie@kolektiva.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      there is every reason to not believe them. they clearly have a motivation to paint power consumption as worse than is true, and the complexity of extracting the use of dogecoin mining from the rest of the mergedmine is, personally, unfathomable. maybe i'm dumb and there is a simple calculation that can be done, but without evidence of their methodology, i'm not going to believe them, and no one should.

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      • eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        what’s the problem of estimating based on mined blocks and difficulty?

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