• Ulrich@feddit.org
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    1 day ago

    I’m not a crypto expert but once crypto is mined, it’s mined. And I don’t think hardly anyone is mining it anymore. And not all crypto requires so much energy in the first place.

    • itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      23 hours ago

      That’s not correct. “Mining” is a reward structure for people processing transactions. Every transaction costs a lot of energy