The computer solves very complex computational problems to “mint”/create a coin so by its very nature it requires electricity to crunch those computations. And also verifying the validity of coins and owners and stuff requires some number crunching itself but i think, if im not mistaken, the bulk of the energy being used is for minting them
It's amazing that capitalism has so thoroughly run against the wall of finite resources that we're creating imaginary extraction industries. Really shows what the presumption of infinite growth does to a mfer
The computer solves very complex computational problems to “mint”/create a coin so by its very nature it requires electricity to crunch those computations. And also verifying the validity of coins and owners and stuff requires some number crunching itself but i think, if im not mistaken, the bulk of the energy being used is for minting them
It's amazing that capitalism has so thoroughly run against the wall of finite resources that we're creating imaginary extraction industries. Really shows what the presumption of infinite growth does to a mfer