regarding nfts/crypto.

paleorobot

there was a tweet in which the ceo of discord has teased incorporating the etherium cryptocurrency.

etherium, like most forms of cryptocurrency, is abysmal for the environment. one transaction's about as bad as leaving your house on for an entire week. and as you can tell from the amount of things related to the subject (honestly you're probably blindly picking something at random to find this one), it is widely unpopular with the userbase; i've already canceled my nitro subscription due to this and i'm definitely not alone regarding this.

to whomever on the discord team decides to read this: don't hop onto dumb trends that are cataclysmic to the environment for the sake of looking cool to your douchey techbro peers, and if you decide to invest in nfts and you get scammed, you cannot say that you were warned by a massive amount of your userbase telling you that this is a shit idea. because this is a shit idea. this is the shittiest idea you can possibly come up with.

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  • Nebula

    Ethereum is also reducing its carbon footprint and energy efficiency this summer when they remove mining for proof of stake for a 99.95% carbon footprint reduction

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  • paleorobot

    that's still 252000 terrawatts of power from now until then.

    also not everyone wants to support crypto and those who don't sure as shit aren't gonna be behind the cryptocurrency of technotyrant of tesla and explosive electric car salesman elon musk

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  • Nebula
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    Layer 2 Solutions like polygon are being explored to reduce power during the transition. Elon Musk also lacks the pull in the Ethereum community he has in Bitcoin, the 2 communities are harshly in opposition of each other (One embraces mining the other has been planning it's move away since 2015, also google "Blocksize wars"). Thats why we built DAOs (voting organizations to control things, democratic worker co-ops is the best analogy) and many other anti-Sybil mechanisms to reduce the power any one figurehead can have over everything

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  • paleorobot

    that's cool hopefully the nfts you're buying into don't end up being scams considering decentralization's ease of abuse

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  • Nebula

    I only dabble in ones like ens, which have real use now (decentralized name registrar, .eth domains and recognized by some browsers so far). If you think decentralization is easy to abuse you should see how some centralized powers like Apple (Think App store) abuse theirs

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