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Re: [CFRG] Bitcoin delenda est. Was: Escalation: time commitment to fix *production* security bugs for BLS RFC v4?

Thomas Dineen <tdineen@ix.netcom.com> Mon, 26 April 2021 20:37 UTC

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Subject: Re: [CFRG] Bitcoin delenda est. Was: Escalation: time commitment to fix *production* security bugs for BLS RFC v4?
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Climate Change is a hoax, stop this nonsense, and get back to work.

Thomas Dineen


On 4/26/2021 1:23 PM, Mike Hamburg wrote:
> Also, sorry for the double post, but according to 
> https://digiconomist.net/ethereum-energy-consumption 
> <https://digiconomist.net/ethereum-energy-consumption>, Bitcoin energy 
> consumption is up 37% year-on-year, and Ethereum is up by a factor of 
> 5 (!!!) year-on-year.  Something that's ~1% of human electricity 
> consumption, and rising significantly year-on-year, is absolutely 
> something to be concerned about.
>
> There are claims that this will somehow help us soak up surplus solar 
> energy during the day, and be idle by night, but this is like 
> Ethereum-proof-of-stake from my POV: until it actually happens at 
> scale, I won’t trust it.
>
> Apologies again,
> — Mike
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