misk@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agoJust 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumptionwww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square51fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squareNιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-26 months agoI feel like calling bitcoin a grifter scheme is kind of like calling fiat currency (edit: in general) a grifter scheme. Which I guess isn’t entirely untrue…
minus-squareEcho Dot@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoOh not this again. Crypto is also fiat. It’s backed by nothing except the trust that it exists, therefore it’s fiat.
I feel like calling bitcoin a grifter scheme is kind of like calling fiat currency (edit: in general) a grifter scheme. Which I guess isn’t entirely untrue…
Oh not this again.
Crypto is also fiat. It’s backed by nothing except the trust that it exists, therefore it’s fiat.