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“From mid-2022 to mid-2023, the 34 mines consumed 32.3 terawatt-hours of electricity—33% more than Los Angeles—85% of which came from fossil fuels. We estimated that 1.9 million Americans were exposed to ≥0.1 μg/m3 of additional PM2.5 pollution from Bitcoin mines, often hundreds of miles away from the communities they affected.”
@veronica
@gerrymcgovern It has ultra low monetary inflation
That's the application
It's like gold with extra steps, but overall worth it
Entire countries have collapsed because of the introduction of new gold into their financial systems, like the Spanish after new Aztec gold came in or Egypt after Mansa Musa spent billions of dollars worth of gold there hundreds of years ago. Gold is used because while new gold is always being mined, overall its not a large amount of new gold. This low monetary inflation made it very appealing to people as a currency to this day. When a new influx of gold came in though, this system was thrown into disarray, causing major resessions in both countries I just mentioned. In the case of Bitcoin because the inflation rate is set and always decreasing, there is no such risk.
Also Bitcoin has the added benefit that it doesn't need to be stored physically, sometimes people remove it their hardware and simply memorize a 25 word passphrase that when used reopens their Bitcoin account
I'd much rather all these mining farms to be solar powered than fossil fuels but Bitcoin is far from useless
Money corrupts, and money in politics corrupts completely.
The image is a screenshot of a social media post by Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders
). The post reads: "So. This is the state of American democracy. The richest guy in the world is handing out million dollar checks in order to win a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat and elect an anti-choice judge. We MUST overturn Citizens United and move to public funding of elections." Below the post, there is an image of Elon Musk holding a large check made out to "America PAC" for "Nicholas Jacobs" in the amount of $1,000,000, signed by Elon Musk.
@georgetakei i heard somewhere that one of these million dollar checks was given to a campaign manager for some republican.
the corruption is multilayered, like even this lottery is rigged
@eniko some ai is chill though
like deepseekr1 or llama3.1
if you run it locally on ur machine it doesnt have any messurable envirnmental impact at all
I'm dying over here. This guy says he's created the world's first AI-based call center for actively disrupting and screwing with scammers. Their AI bots are taking live phonecalls at scale and keeping the scammers on the line for hours, and sometimes taunting the scammers. They're tying up entire scam call centers. So entertaining.
RangerAndTheCat for me its the constant fear that someone will block me for not hating all of crypto and actually liking the math behind it
and same for LLMs ngl
@Daojoan i like the idea of a weaker govt in some cases but i def dont lean to the right
i feel like a ton of people here would fit somewhere into the green square in the lower left
fyzzlefry
Confidant6198 I think that if their wealth and power can be controlled and limited somehow its mostly fine but the danger comes when their power gets out of hand and they go insane. I'm more chill with Bill Gates than musk is what I'm saying
I know we all love to criticize older generations, but in the 20th century if someone did a Nazi salute you could almost guarantee that a WW2 veteran would punch them in the head, and I think there was a great societal benefit to that.
Newsletter: Crypto reserves: no public good, no principles
The formerly anti-government bitcoin movement abandons its principles in favor of number-go-up, applauds federal plan to stockpile seized crypto with no clear benefit to national interest
@molly0xfff I don't directly see how this benefits the average person, but as Bitcoin rises in the long term - and it is a very powerful long term investment, its just horrible for short term stuff - it could help pay off some large part of the national debt of the US
Fool me once ...
“It is what is it is” is such a go to automatic response that I’m working on getting past
The brittleness of white billionaires
https://fixupx.com/elonmusk/status/1897954924337467555