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[Bruce Wayne]

How green is my bitcoin? - LSE Business Review

Green bitcoin has been proposed as a way to counter the excessive energy consumption and CO2 emissions of cryptocurrencies. However, Martin C.W. Walker writes that the whole idea that you can create a green type of bitcoin that would work alongside non-green ones is hard to maintain. That would...

blogs.lse.ac.uk

 

[Paris]

The good thing is that bitcoin miners are far more open and are also keen to clean up. Try telling a gold miner that they need to change - they'd grumble like heck because they'd have to close down lol

 

[nikom court]

The good thing is that bitcoin miners are far more open and are also keen to clean up. Try telling a gold miner that they need to change - they'd grumble like heck because they'd have to close down lol

They would destroy the rainforest and pollute the river first though!

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[Bruce Wayne]

$1.37 billion in trade in narcotics on Hydra paid for in crypto in the past year (Hydra is a Russian dark web marketplace). Nothing to see here though.

 

[Paris]

GME and AMC lol

 

[Paris]

$1.37 billion in trade in narcotics on Hydra paid for in crypto in the past year (Hydra is a Russian dark web marketplace). Nothing to see here though.

And if I want some of the Colombian marching powder tonight I'll use cash to pay for it.

Point being, far more cash is used in the drugs trade than crypto. The only way to sort out the problem is by banning the use of cash completely. Something that I wouldn't be opposed to - I use plastic (and metal) 99.9% of the time anyway.

 

[Mrk]

Maybe the solution is to outlaw cash, crypto and make coke the universal world currency? I'd love to see governments try and debase coke... aw, crap, wait. Nevermind.

 

[Ruairi77]

GME and AMC lol

haven't the foggiest about GME but AMC doing well makes sense, no?

 

[LinekersLegs]

GME and AMC lol

 

[Paris]

Maybe the solution is to outlaw cash, crypto and make coke the universal world currency? I'd love to see governments try and debase coke... aw, crap, wait. Nevermind.

I'd be happy to bring back a bartering system.

Happy to sell @LinekersLegs for some lovely steak.

But tbh, BTC transactions are not hidden. They are public and traceable. So if the authorities knew their arse from their elbow, they'd be able to ping it.

 

[nikom court]

There was no funding of terrorism,drug cartels, kidnapping,ransoms paid or cyber crime before 2010!

 

[Paris]

There was no funding of terrorism,drug cartels, kidnapping,ransoms paid or cyber crime before 2010!

The biggest crime of the century was committed by bankers, who of course received a lovely bailout, instead of a ball and chains.

 

[nikom court]

Here's another totally radical idea,these public institutions that keep on being hacked,they should be forced to have adequate cyber security!

 

[Paris]

Here's another totally radical idea,these public institutions that keep on being hacked,they should be forced to have adequate cyber security!

and the staff should probably stop downloading weird files they receive on corporate wi-fi..