• calcopiritus@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    With the electricity used to validate a single crypto transaction you could do thousands or even millions of DB queries.

    Yes, everything uses electricity. That’s like saying that it’s fine if you kill one cow per day to eat its ear and throw the rest because hundreds of them are killed every day in farms.

    Wasting so much electricity in such a non efficient manner so a decentralization cult member can have his wet dream of using non-government money makes no sense.