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35 crypto companies got together to make a change dot org petition called "Bitcoin Deserves an Emoji".

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (2 children)

You can't begin to imagine just how much energy cryptocurrencies use. A web server can never come close.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

A web server can never come close

but AI model training can.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Pretty sure people have been shitting on AI pretty heavily as well, partly for those reasons (but also for several others).