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| Topic | China just declared crypto illegal; this means y'all can finally get video cards |
| adjl 09/24/21 3:53:35 PM #7: | Lokarin posted... What if there was green crypto? By its nature, it's always going to be significantly more energetically demanding than normal computing. Computers will improve in their energy efficiency, but not matter how efficient you get, it will always be true that you can get more computing power by using more electricity. Because the yield from crypto mining scales linearly with computing power (more or less), miners are limited not by reaching some arbitrary threshold of "enough" mining power, but instead by how much they can profitably sustain. Basically, if you make computers efficient enough that current mining setups could be considered "green," miners will just add more computers until the power consumption is roughly the same. It's a paradigm that has no inherent upper bound on power consumption. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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