doylio
@doylio@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Scientists find a simple way to destroy 'forever chemicals' — by beheading them 10 months ago:
Humanity: Nothing stops this train
- Comment on How Mastodon made friends with Meta 11 months ago:
It seems to be a lightweight alternative to Mastodon that is easier for individuals to run on a private server
- Comment on US regulators crack down on AI playing doctor in healthcare 11 months ago:
Yes, of all the problems in the healthcare system, the problem of letting AI help patients diagnose their own problems is definitely top of the list /s
- Comment on Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption 11 months ago:
That would be great! And I’m sure there are people doing it. And if 2.3% of the US Power grid were dedicated to that I’m sure some people would be upset about it too
My basic point is I don’t think there is anything morally wrong with Bitcoin miners using energy, even though this is a narrative that is very popular now. There are plenty of other valid criticisms of Bitcoin, but I don’t think this one stands up to scrutiny.
- Comment on Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption 11 months ago:
I would love if this were an option, but it’s not. The current battery technologies don’t have the scale for grid level storage capacity. The only grid scale storage solution that is really being done is to build very expensive infrastructure that moves water between two dams of different heights, and building more of those doesn’t seem politically likely at the moment
The reality is that there is much a whole bunch of excess energy supply that is produced because power plants can’t cycle up and down with demand. So they have to keep producing at peak demand 24/7 (there is some nuances based on the type of power plant, NatGas is faster to turn on/off, but this is broadly true)
I have my qualms with Bitcoin. As a currency it has significant transaction speed problems, and potential security ones after a couple more halvenings. But I don’t see a problem if Bitcoin miners want to pay energy producers to use energy that would be produced anyway and earn the producers nothing.
- Comment on Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption 11 months ago:
I agree with everything you’ve said
Pretty much the only things Bitcoin has on Ethereum today is a better brand and Lindy effect
- Comment on Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption 11 months ago:
Oh yeah there are many criticisms of Bitcoin one can make, I just don’t think the energy one is very convincing if you think about it a bit
- Comment on Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption 11 months ago:
It does NOT fucking matter if it’s “”“”““waste””“”“” energy
Sounds like you don’t actually care about the energy use, you just hate this for moral reasons. Using excess energy has zero externalities
- Comment on Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption 11 months ago:
I’ve always found this argument against crypto to be a bad one. The headline is something like “Crypto mining uses XYZ total energy” and we’re supposed to infer that this means crypto is polluting a lot. But it doesn’t say how much pollution there actually was. For economic reasons, these miners often use cheap excess energy that would have been produced anyway or green tech. Not all of it obviously, but that level of nuance is missing.
Also, we don’t make the same moral arguments against other energy uses. Air conditioners use more energy than Bitcoin mining does, but we don’t go around saying the government should ban people from using AC.
There are legitimate problems with crypto, but this one never convinced me
- Comment on Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption 11 months ago:
Tbf, most money nowadays doesn’t physically exist nowadays. Only a tiny fraction of the “money” that is out there has a physical instantiation. Most of it is just numbers in bank servers
- Comment on Over 2 percent of the US’s electricity generation now goes to bitcoin 11 months ago:
I think the 32 ETH lockup + slashing does make it riskier to stake, but it also makes the chain more secure. As a malicious Ethereum staker, every failed attack costs me a lot of money. As a Cardano staker, I can attempt an attack many times because there I don’t lost that much if it fails.
The lack of liquid staking is the only real drawback I see here, as it has allowed some centralization in the Lido token. Ethereum has yet to address that issue
- Comment on Over 2 percent of the US’s electricity generation now goes to bitcoin 11 months ago:
Yeah I’m pro PoS in general, but I don’t think we should forbid people from running PoW on their own computers. Seems like a step too far.
Side note, what’s wrong with Ethereum’s PoS in your opinion?
- Comment on Over 2 percent of the US’s electricity generation now goes to bitcoin 11 months ago:
I think the best solution would be to properly tax carbon. That way Bitcoin miners would either become unprofitable or move to greener energy.
I don’t think it’s a good idea to establish the precedent that gov’t can decide what you can and cannot do with your energy. You may think it’s a waste of energy, but if the externality is properly taxed, I don’t see the problem with letting it continue
- Comment on Women STEM students up to twice as likely as non-STEM students to have experienced sexism 11 months ago:
Name 5 societies in all of history, that are as diverse as the western world today and have the levels of opportunity for minorities
- Comment on Women STEM students up to twice as likely as non-STEM students to have experienced sexism 11 months ago:
One truth about the modern media landscape: stories that pit groups against each other play well
- Comment on Congress Wants Tech Companies to Pay Up for AI Training Data 1 year ago:
I think most of the crazy lawmakers are not actually crazy. It’s an act that they know gets them attention on social media, but on issues that aren’t partisan they can actually act like adults
- Comment on Six months after the initial reddit surge (graphs) 1 year ago:
Awesome work! Thanks for sharing!
- Comment on Bring Karma back (if you want, no hard feelings pls), but without toxicity (maybe)! 1 year ago:
I’m not a big fan of karma either, I definitely don’t want to see it baked into the core protocol. However with this implementation, it doesn’t seem to harmful as most users won’t have it.
I would also love to see some experimentation with different methods of assigning karma on the fediverse. The Community Notes algorithm from twitter is very interesting as it boosts answers that have support across many groups of users. It’s an attempt to encourage answers that reach across divides, instead of ones that foster echo chambers.
Let a million experimental flowers bloom!
- Comment on Kagi is now partnering with Brave 1 year ago:
I wasn’t aware of the tipping controversy. That’s not a good look, but I don’t use their crypto features (apart from IPFS every once in a while).
No tech company is squeaky clean in 2024, and Brave’s baggage seems better than Chrome’s.
- Comment on Kagi is now partnering with Brave 1 year ago:
I use Brave an don’t understand the hate it gets. Seems like a good alternative to Chrome if you don’t like ads
- Comment on De-Escalating Social Media 1 year ago:
Awesome ideas!
- Comment on Lemmy MAUs climbing back up! You love to see it. 1 year ago:
I joined lemmy back in June but slowly returned to reddit. Now I’m back on lemmy because I’ve noticed the huge surge in political rage baiting (likely by bad actors) on reddit. Lemmy is just nicer!
