misk@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoJust 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumptionwww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square360fedilinkarrow-up11.02Karrow-down131cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squareHACKthePRISONS@kolektiva.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down11·1 year agotwo of the top 10 by market cap ar stable coins.
minus-squareEager Eagle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·1 year agowhat’s your point?
minus-squareHACKthePRISONS@kolektiva.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down10·1 year agothat market cap is a dumb metric to use to dictate protocol specifications
minus-squareEager Eagle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-21 year agowtf are you even talking about? What protocol specs? Who’s dictating what?
minus-squareHACKthePRISONS@kolektiva.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down7·1 year agothe specifications of the bitcoin protocol require proof of work. using the market cap to dictate what the protocol specification should be is absurd.
minus-squareEager Eagle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 year agoand who’s proposing that? I picked the top in market cap to illustrate what most relevant coins are doing because most of them are irrelevant shitcoins.
minus-squareHACKthePRISONS@kolektiva.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down10·1 year agoseems like you undrestand that market cap is irrelevant to the protocol design.
minus-squareKnock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoWant to suggest a better one?
minus-squareHACKthePRISONS@kolektiva.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down3·1 year agouh… adoption, stability, code commits, forks…
two of the top 10 by market cap ar stable coins.
what’s your point?
that market cap is a dumb metric to use to dictate protocol specifications
wtf are you even talking about? What protocol specs? Who’s dictating what?
the specifications of the bitcoin protocol require proof of work. using the market cap to dictate what the protocol specification should be is absurd.
and who’s proposing that? I picked the top in market cap to illustrate what most relevant coins are doing because most of them are irrelevant shitcoins.
seems like you undrestand that market cap is irrelevant to the protocol design.
Want to suggest a better one?
uh… adoption, stability, code commits, forks…