POW - Climate and Electricity consumption

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@P.J totally agree, we should be prepared for this new wave of attack on PoW.

I talked on this topic on many occasions before, however my own ability is limited, inaccurate and incorrect information is still circulating everywhere. As a community I believe we can do much better! We could make use of abundant existing resources to help people understand the value of PoW. Just spread the information will be very useful.

Here’s a small list of them:

• What PoS cannot achieve
• PoW is efficient
• Nothing is cheaper than PoW
• Why I dislike PoS
• Debate on imagined 51% attack
• A post well accepted in the Chinese community, not sure if there’s a translated version

@P.J

Even if we assume that most of the datacenters running the miners use renewable energy, the miners itself produce massive amounts of heat and CO2.

Satoshi made good points 10 years ago. Here’s a later development on heat reuse. I’ll worry more about the electric car industry if there’s any valid proof of “PoW emits massive amounts of CO2”.