• Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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    that’s like saying that as long as the world has at least one electric car the internal combustion engine can continue to exist without issue.

    No. PoS (EV makers) are not supporting the existence of PoW (ICE vehicles). In fact, one builder made a deliberate planned move from PoW to PoS. All new builders are PoS.

    the vast majority of cryptocurrencies are still power hungry

    False. Remove Bitcoin (>100TWh) and the only PoW coin in the top 10 is DOGE (~4TWh).

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      Oh great so if you remove bitcoin your argument works, trouble is, bitcoin exists

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        The only way to remove bitcoin is through redundancy.

        Support it’s successor technologies that improve on the design in every single dimension (including energy efficiency).

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      No but they’re supporting the existence of personal cars which are a blight at this point.

      We don’t need more cars. We need more public transit. We don’t need crypto.

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        The analogy doesn’t stretch to allowing fiat to be compared to public transport.

        A medium that is decimated when Trump shouts “Tariff” is not a gold standard.

        Fiat is only the gold standard when it is backed by actual gold.