• prole@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    No. If a crypto were adopted at that scale, it wouldn’t be proof-of-work, so there would be no “miners” and (comparatively) no energy consumption whatsoever.

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      8 months ago

      There is no clear advantage of proof of stake cryptocurrencies compared to blockchain-less centralized databases. IMHO It’s either Bitcoin, or PayPal 2.0

      edit: But since people tend to be weird, maybe no advantage is needed…

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      8 months ago

      If what you said was true, Bitcoin would already have given its place to any of the proof of stake coins.

      But it hasn’t because it won’t. Crypto people only care about becoming rich, so to them the technology behind doesn’t matter. And there is much more money to make using Bitcoin than the rest.