The headline isn’t accurate as usual, but isn’t completely wrong either. We’re at a point where it’s no longer profitable for individual minors, even if we ignore externalities like the cost we’re collectively paying due to mining pollution and carbon emissions.
Mining is require increasing amount of energy and resources as time pass, so unless there’s a radical change in bitcoin’s algorithm or unless energy becomes free, we should expect mining to get non-profitable in more and more situations.
HubertManne@piefed.social 3 days ago
this is what im always trying to get people to understand. bitcoin is programmed to take more resources to artificially increase in value. its why its so horrible for the environment and why it could never really be used as a currency. Now other coins fix this issue but bitcoin tends to be popular because its fixed. Some even do useful work like gridcoin.
slacktoid@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
Libertarian economic theory failing in front of our very eyes
PoPoP@lemm.ee 2 days ago
At this point, if we were smart, we would recognize that this thing is going nowhere and leverage it to drive the renewables market. The planet will be sterile before any revolution happens. Capitalism is another thing that is going nowhere. But you can fold it in on itself to trick it into actually doing something good for a change.
Gotta play the hand you’re dealt.
slacktoid@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Agreed. Sometimes we need to coopt the tools and language of the oppressor to get closer to the revolution