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0 pointsMitPitt3y ago0 comments

You're pulling the classic "I've got nothing to hide, therefore I don't need privacy"

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vanderZwan3y ago· 3 in thread

The utterly extreme zero-trust proof-of-work crypto algorithms that have been significantly contributing to climate change over the last decade are not necessary to achieve privacy, and most of the time not even used to achieve it either.

survirtual3y ago

Significantly contributing to climate change? Nonsense. The US petrodollar has single handedly caused climate change. The greed of the upper class and their alignment with the middle east has caused climate change.

How anyone could believe a digital token of value, a keypair, and voluntary usage of energy to participate in a decentralized network could possibly be a major contributing factor in climate change, while shipping barges and oil rigs are in full operation, is beyond me. A part of me wish I was capable of such levels of delusion.

sph3y ago

I am a strong believer in climate change, but I feel many are pulling the "causes climate change" card in their arguments like "think of the children!"—a subtly dishonest way to trap their interlocutor because no one sane would want harm to come to the children, or to climate.

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soco3y ago

"the voluntary usage of energy" is the referred part you also recognize as such. When that usage is the size of a small country consumption it becomes worth talking about - just like the shipping barges and oil rigs. You don't fix a wrong with another wrong.

tmtvl3y ago

Hey now, I like turning that on its head: what's going on with proprietary software? What wrong is it doing that it needs to hide?

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