bbsm3678

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[–] bbsm3678@lemmy.world 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I provided my thoughts in unpopular opinions. There’s no burden here at all.

Furthermore, I made an asymptotic limiting behavior argument (e.g., the variable cost is lowest for renewable sources), which quite literally is math https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymptotic_analysis

The variable cost effect of renewable is quite well known, thus there is no real need to cite things, but here is a recent article https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/22/green-power-now-cheaper-than-fossil-fuels-un-reports-show

I am trying to discuss a clearly unpopular opinion in the fediverse; and am opening to changing my views. Your comments have clearly been well liked by the community but do you think they serve to create a positive community atmosphere? Or should we all strive to live in our own echo chambers?

[–] bbsm3678@lemmy.world 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

This is a good point. Do you think wind power has these same externalities? I agree a solar farm can create a large footprint

[–] bbsm3678@lemmy.world -2 points 5 days ago (3 children)
 

Bitcoin wastes a lot of energy. I agree. It is basically a mechanism to turn energy into something analogous to money.

However, people do not generally live where there is a lot of potential to generate green energy. Wind, solar, geothermal, nuclear all generally work best far away from heavily populated areas (this is not always the case). Additionally, wind + solar are highly variable.

Per unit of energy renewable energy will always be more cost effective than fossil fuels in the long run, but there is a high fixed cost at present.

The more sources that can consume energy in remote areas the more incentives there are to build renewable energy sources.

Thus cryptocurrencies like bitcoin are a net positive for building green energy sources in the long term.

[–] bbsm3678@lemmy.world -3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Cash has zero protection too

[–] bbsm3678@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Yes you are right, there are always grifters everywhere, unfortunately.

[–] bbsm3678@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

In KYC systems it is really easy to acquire—companies are willing to sell it to you with no problems.

If you want to get it anonymously, the easiest would probably be to buy via cash. In Switzerland, you can buy via some atms

[–] bbsm3678@lemmy.world 38 points 6 days ago (25 children)

I find it funny that a lot of the fediverse is anti-cryptocurrency, yet this is a perfect example of a problem cryptocurrency can solve. No one can stop you from transacting on a number of blockchains.

[–] bbsm3678@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Do you know how this will affect existing installations? Is this gnome only or any desktop?