Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumptionmisk@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.world – 977 points – 10 months agotomshardware.com360Post a CommentPreviewYou are viewing a single commentView all commentsShow the parent comment>At scale what does that mean?meaning PoW is not such a problem when applied to create consensus in local or niche blockchains as the difficulty (and energy consumption) is orders of magnitude lower. For widely used coins it's a terrible choice.PoW isn't a problem at all.
>At scale what does that mean?meaning PoW is not such a problem when applied to create consensus in local or niche blockchains as the difficulty (and energy consumption) is orders of magnitude lower. For widely used coins it's a terrible choice.PoW isn't a problem at all.
meaning PoW is not such a problem when applied to create consensus in local or niche blockchains as the difficulty (and energy consumption) is orders of magnitude lower. For widely used coins it's a terrible choice.PoW isn't a problem at all.
>At scale
what does that mean?
meaning PoW is not such a problem when applied to create consensus in local or niche blockchains as the difficulty (and energy consumption) is orders of magnitude lower. For widely used coins it's a terrible choice.
PoW isn't a problem at all.