Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption::The U.S Energy Information Administration is now requiring large-scale cryptomining operations to report their energy consumption. Inevitably this will bring about new regulations that will restrict the energy consumption of miners in the future.
Let’s waste 2.7% energy for some virtual asset with purely speculative price while we warm our planet past the 1.5C.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 9 months ago
ITT: Butthurt crypto bros
metallic_substance@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Wow. No kidding. I lost a very close friend who got obsessed with the “get rich quick” aspect of crypto, and these losers sound just like he did. Granted, there were a multitude of other reasons I stopped talking to him, but holy fuck