zergtoshi
@zergtoshi@lemmy.world
- Comment on Now that ChatGPT is being trained using Reddit posts 8 months ago:
Not of it’s neither A nor B ;)
Would you trust ChatGPT to know? - Comment on Please Stop 8 months ago:
There’s attempts at having payments with 0 fees, that is, if you don’t involve exchanges or payment service providers, who obviously charge a fee for fiat conversion.
Using Nano you have 0 fees for the transaction and ideally as little as 0.25% fee at an exchange for fiat conversion.
It’s not only without fees, it’s very fast (ideallly sub-second confirmation) and eco-friendly (requiring no special hardware, because there is no mining and using very little energy overall).
What’s lacking is places where you can actually pay for things with Nano, but that’s the classic chicken and egg problem. - Comment on Please Stop 8 months ago:
Fixing issues like energy consumption, confirmation time, fees?
Just in case you haven’t heard of Nano, allow me to tell you it’s an attempt at creating a peer-to-peer digital currency with minimal energy consumption, 0 fees, 0 minimum account balance, very fast confirmation (ideally sub-second, sometimes a bit slower) and 0 supply inflation.
It focuses on doing one thing and doing it well: transferring value efficiently, sustsinably and without middlemen.
It’s around since 2015 and still kicking, getting better and better with each release, ironing kinks out.
It might sound too good to be true, but it’s worth a look; make up your own mind. - Comment on Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption 9 months ago:
Solar panels can have more than 200 watts peak per square meter and provide around 200 kWh per year and square meter, although these values vary a lot depending on where the panels are installed.
Given these numbers, generating 200 TWh annually (which is more than the current electric energy consumption of Bitcoin mining devices) would require 10^9 square meters; that’s slightly more than 31 square kilometers.
Don’t misunderstand this as defending the electric energy consumption of Bitcoin mining! I’d rather see this electric energy being used elsewhere.
I merely wanted to show how much electric energy can be harvested using solar panels. - Comment on Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption 9 months ago:
Yes, there’s a queue called mempool.
Clogging up the network is possible, but costs money (BTC), because transaction fees need to be added to the transactions and those fees need to be higher than those of the highest not yet processed transactions if “regular” users’ transactions shall be delayed.
Miners prefer transactions with higher fees (to be precise: higher fees per occupied block space), because they earn them when creating the block successfully - together with the BTC that get issued when a block gets created. - Comment on Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption 9 months ago:
It’s a bit more than just an estimate. If you want to know more, have a look here: bitslog.com/…/the-well-deserved-fortune-of-satosh…
The keys to the addresses exist. Whether someone is in control of them is unclear. It can’t be proven that they’ve been lost. - Comment on Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption 9 months ago:
Just because it’s useless to you doesn’t mean it’s useless in general.
- Comment on Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption 9 months ago:
You can look how much space a transaction requires, how much size is available per block and how many blocks per time are being created (at average).
The only way to exceed the figure is by creating transactions with 1 (or few) input(s) and a lot of outputs as they are more efficient in terms of space per tx. Individuals rarely have use for that, but exchanges tend to do that.
If you want to do your own research, start with the fundamentals and investigate the numbers (size per tx depending on type of tx, size per block, blocks per time). - Comment on Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption 9 months ago:
Shall I add the mountain of electronic waste to the list?
I mean, Bitcoin mining devices can literally do nothing else but calculate SHA256.
Once they can no longer be operated economically, they’re garbage.
At least Ethereum’s PoW ran on GPUs, which can be used for, let’s say: gaming!
And Ethereum showed that a transition from PoW to PoS is possible.
I think that Bitcoin sparked a great idea, but way better implementations of that idea are available. Bitcoin has a massive network effect and first mover advantage. technology wise it’s no longer on top of the list. - Comment on Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption 9 months ago:
Prime numbers are searched for doing the PoW. The blockchain essentially contains a data base with prime numbers. As far as I can tell Primecoin never was popular,.but I like the novel approach of doing things, when most cryptocurrencies of that time were lame copies.
Btw. the Primecoin creator made Peercoin, which was afaik the first (and apparently still running) network being secured by Proof-of-Stake. - Comment on Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption 9 months ago:
It’s a lot of energy for a global (!) maximum of around 7 transactions per second.
Unless you want to use the replica of traditional finance called Lightning Network. Then you have more transactions per second and a whole new set of drawbacks. - Comment on Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption 9 months ago:
Not all crypto are the same.
Nano has been designed as digital money.
It has no mining, 0 fees (none for transactions, none for opening accounts), finalizes transactions sub-second (typically), has no built-in throughput limits and works across (political) borders.
I’d say these attributes offer some use and value. - Comment on Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption 9 months ago:
Primecoin wants to have a word having done useful PoW for over a decade.
- Comment on AMD’s new CPU hits 132fps in Fortnite without a graphics card 9 months ago:
Mine is still running nicely :)
- Comment on NASA Successfully Tests Revolutionary Rocket That Could Get Us to Mars Faster 10 months ago:
I see it quite simplistic: if it isn’t listed as SI unit by the BIPM it isn’t one.
Lending a helping hand on how to deal with derived units (e.g. km/h) doesn’t mean those derived units are endorsed as SI units.
But that’s just my point of view. - Comment on NASA Successfully Tests Revolutionary Rocket That Could Get Us to Mars Faster 10 months ago:
I’m sorry to be a stickler, but it’s not an SI unit.
Have a look at p. 145 and “Non-SI units that are accepted for use with the SI”, if you want to know more: bipm.org/…/fcf090b2-04e6-88cc-1149-c3e029ad8232?v… - Comment on NASA Successfully Tests Revolutionary Rocket That Could Get Us to Mars Faster 10 months ago:
Why not using SI units and m/s?
- Comment on The first EV with a lithium-free sodium battery hits the road in January 10 months ago:
The enginnering part is for sure one of the reasons we don’t see that idea in the wild (yet?).
The fire hazard at home and degradation when stored full or empty (speaking of lithion ion based batteries here) go away if you lean on the rental approach.
Wouldn’t it be nice to save investment and weight by using the required amount of battery capacity while still being able to extend the range of your car easily when needed? - Comment on The first EV with a lithium-free sodium battery hits the road in January 10 months ago:
Wpuld you rather purchase an 80 kWh battery, alrhough you need most of the time only 20 kWh or purchase only 20 kWh and rent/swap some batteries when needed?
I’m no talking about renting all battery capacity the whole year, just the extra capacity for the 2-4 weeks in the year when long-distance rides are in the mix. - Comment on The first EV with a lithium-free sodium battery hits the road in January 10 months ago:
It wouldn’t be necessary very often unless you’d want to take advantage of swapping instead of reloading.
- Comment on The first EV with a lithium-free sodium battery hits the road in January 10 months ago:
Then buy it. No need to rent it then.
The main focus was on flexible energy packs not on the renting, although I’d find it convenient if done right. - Comment on The first EV with a lithium-free sodium battery hits the road in January 10 months ago:
I’m still dreaming of seeing EVs with flexible battery space, which users can fill according to their needs.
Like a car comes with space for 10x 10 kWh slots.
If 20 kWh serve your usual needs, the other spaces remain empty.
And if you plan longer trips and don’t want to recharge each 100 miles, you put in additional batteries. Those batteries don’t need to be owned, but can be rented.
Ideally there are lots of battery rental stations, where you can get charged batteries and instead of recharging the batteries in the EV, the rent’n’swap stations recharge them.
During (EV) wise low use times, these stations can provide a buffer to the energy grid.
…one can dream… - Comment on Firefox for Android now supports over 450 add-ons 11 months ago:
Just put the browser in an alternative app store then 😎
- Comment on How many of you actually use the headphone jack on your phone? 11 months ago:
I use it quite frequently for both making calls and listening to music or videos.
- Comment on Ifixit gives fairphone 5 a 10/10 on repairability and maintanence 11 months ago:
The OnePlus X is such a beautiful phone. Sadly there’s no ROM left that’s being maintained.
- Comment on Google admits it's making YouTube worse for ad block users 11 months ago:
Do you know the old saying:
if privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy.Just because prople might do stuff with things that isn’t intended or even illegal doesn’t mean you should be banning said things.
Otherwise we’d be in a world where we have no kitchen knives, axes, wrenches, food, money, cars, planes, ships, bikes, hands, feet - you know what I mean? - Comment on How Reddit Crushed the Internet's Largest Protest 11 months ago:
Me too and I won’t be going back.
- Comment on Reddit now blocks signed out VPN connections. 11 months ago:
I was active on reddit for quite a while and by contributing and visiting the site making reddit money.
I have no desire to feed their greed and what they pulled with their API pricing was nothing but greed and shortsightedness.
I’m gone from reddit for good. - Comment on Not if the lack of grammar and education gets you first... 11 months ago:
See? Now it makes sense! Or not…
Seriously, your translation was very helpful. I understood most, of that message, but the vacations made no sense and were a bit too far off from what was meant to be said. - Comment on Not if the lack of grammar and education gets you first... 11 months ago:
And the aquaeducts!