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waste_monktoday at 6:28 AM1 replyview on HN

I am always hopeful that something like this might kill cryptocurrency (although I don't believe it will) - if a critical mass lose confidence in it, the network effect would collapse and people might stop wasting terawatt-hours of power on NFTs and exit scams.


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r_leetoday at 7:28 AM

why do you care so much about that? NFTs are basically dead already and crypto is still somewhat niche

like, why does it even matter? I doubt the energy usage is anywhere near AI workloads running today