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Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Does my grocery store or gas station accept it?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Just because it's useless to you doesn't mean it's useless in general.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Does your grocery store or gas station accept Qatari riyals?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If that were my local currency, then I'm sure they would

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

At which point your local grocery store or gas station wouldn't be accepting whatever currency is your current local currency. The point would remain the same - a currency doesn't have to be universally accepted everywhere on the entire planet for it to still be a useful currency.