[golfbravobravo]

I get it in regards to bitcoin, ethereum, etc but a NFT doesnt require mining to create, does it? I thought NFTs were created and sold/bought.

It's based on Blockchain, so it requires mining.

 

[yonson]

Bitcoin consumes 'more electricity than Argentina'​

By Cristina Criddle
Technology reporter
BBC
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56012952

Most of the major crypto farms are "green" powered and use a large percentage of solar, and geothermal energy...

At least you're better off than the guy in England. He threw away a computer, that had Bitcoins on it. This was before the craze. By the time he realized he'd thrown away the wrong PC, his Bitcoins were worth more than $270 million dollars...!

I lost my BTC HD around 2012, at the time it was only worth around $100, now (if I had kept them, which I know I wouldn't have anyway so I'm not too concerned about it) it would be worth just under a million...

 

[Zachik]

I'm a 'Boomer' and I tear up a bit when I take the first bite of a really good steak.

You do know that 'Boomer' does not mean having gas issues. Right?

 

[StimpyWan]

I lost my BTC HD around 2012, at the time it was only worth around $100, now (if I had kept them, which I know I wouldn't have anyway so I'm not too concerned about it) it would be worth just under a million...

 

[JES]

Schiit Hel 2 arrived today. Sound is a major improvement over the PC headset jack. The mic is a big improvement as well. Positioning with Dolby Atmos works very well. It's doing serious justice to the PC38X headset it's feeding. Worth $199? So far, I'd say definitely. We'll see over the next week or so after I give it a thorough test in several games.

 

[Billheiser]

Real person vs. fictional characters; I'll go with the person.

 

[Ripper2860]

You do know that 'Boomer' does not mean having gas issues. Right?

You do know that Age and Flatulence are not mutually exclusive. Right?

 

[A Jedi]

People would actually waste electricity on the kartrashians?

Apparently they do. That family made mad $$$ off social media.

 

[sam6550a]

Apparently they do. That family made mad $$$ off social media.

P. T. Barnum was totally correct in his observations of human behavior.

 

[filthy mechanical]

I agree. Hero soldiers after Nazi gold. At least I think that's from Kelly's Heroes?

That is a snip from that movie.

 

[Derrick Swart]

If it's like cryptocurrency, the issue is the computing power required to generate the crytographic information. It is estimated that a non-trivial percentage of the world's power consumption is involved with cryptocurrency mining - on the order of 100 TeraWatt-hours per year. (at a dime a kilowatt-hour, that's over 11 billiion dollars worth of electricity.)

You see, with money you make money.

 

[Ripper2860]

Move along. Nothing to see here. <duplicate post removed>

 

[Ripper2860]

Or you could write a cryptominer app and covertly install it without permission on 100s of thousands or even millions of vulnerable computers and have them expend the CPU/GPU cycles and associated costs to generate cryptocurrency for you.

 

[US Blues]

Or one could write a cryptominer app and covertly install it without permission on 100s of thousands or even millions of vulnerable computers and have them expend the CPU/GPU cycles and associated costs to generate cryptocurrency for you.

Bitcoins for BBQ!

 

[RickB]

That's just so wrong. I mean wrong for the environment. I'm selling all 450,000 of my Bitcoins in protest today.

For a second, I misread that as "Bifrost consumes more electricity than Argentina."