Nu, Musk, nu da vina pe Bitcoin pentru energie murdară - Problema este mai profundă

Elon Musk is definitely interested in digital currency, but it seems that he doesn’t want to understand it. At least, I worry that he doesn’t have a deep enough understanding of Bitcoin (BTC) și sistemele descentralizate în general.

Un sistem descentralizat trebuie să fie sigur, iar proof-of-work (PoW) este soluția pentru ca Bitcoin să-și securizeze activul digital. Cu cât Bitcoin are mai mult succes, cu atât este nevoie de mai multă energie pentru PoW pentru a securiza rețeaua. Cu alte cuvinte, motivul pentru care Bitcoin consumă mult mai multă energie electrică decât Dogecoin (DOGE), de exemplu, deoarece BTC este mult mai sigur decât DOGE.

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Ironia lui Elon Musk

From a power perspective, BTC uses up more energy in Bitcoin mining. This is due to the fact that Bitcoin is in a leadership position. The irony is that electricity is amorphous — amorphous in the sense that you don’t know where it comes from. Just by looking at a kilowatt of electricity transmitted to you, unless someone told you, you don’t know where it comes from. You have to track the origin source, where sometimes the source is green and renewable — such as solar, wind, hydro or geothermal — but sometimes the energy is dirty coal, nuclear and other dirty energy supplies that are out there.

The main issue is that energy itself is neutral. Energy doesn’t know where it came from. Energy is just energy — electricity. So, the irony is that with Elon Musk, the electric cars that he sells at Tesla are powered by the same energy that’s used in the coal-powered BTC mining machines. It is ironic that he’s been criticizing the mining machines pentru consumarea multă energie, deoarece mașinile Tesla sunt alimentate folosind multă energie care vine din întreaga lume. Dacă ajungi să construiești și să vinzi 10 milioane de mașini, acestea vor folosi multă energie ca principiu.

Cine are dreptate, cine greșește?

Modul de a scăpa cu adevărat de energia murdară este oprirea producției la sursă: centrala electrică. Acesta este singurul mod de a scăpa de sursele nesustenabile de energie. Dacă mineritul Bitcoin este necesar, s-ar putea să credeți că luminile de Crăciun sunt în regulă sau că pornirea aerului condiționat este în regulă, când, în realitate, luminile de Crăciun – în opinia mea – sunt cu adevărat inutile. De asemenea, pot argumenta că aerul condiționat este, de asemenea, inutil. Pe de altă parte, mașinile de spălat și uscătoarele sunt necesare, dar dacă ai vrea neapărat, ai putea încerca să speli rufele în mod natural, manual și în pârâul din spatele casei tale.

These subjective concerns about what’s right or wrong, or how one uses their electricity, come down to society. Do we allow society and the mature adults who live in it to choose how they want to use electricity? Should there be some standards, rules or even laws that would regulate it?

If you can use washing machines or air conditioners, why can’t you use Bitcoin mining machines? All of these appliances are wasting energy, but these examples are designed to make our lives easier and better.

Fie că este vorba de Acordul Paris or some other important international decree, the goal must be to eliminate dirty energy at its source, at the power plants, as mentioned previously. To be completely fair, many of the other industries use a lot of electricity: aluminum, steel, gold and silver mining — they all take up a lot of electricity and use a lot of energy, whether it’s electricity or fossil fuel energy. In the end, it’s a matter of judgment on which activity is good or bad. The answer here would be entirely subjective: For some, it’s good to mine gold or process steel, while mining Bitcoin is environmentally destructive. Conversely, I would argue that mining Bitcoin is good, and processing gold and steel is wasting money, energy and resources. After all, it’s subjective.

De ce a ales Musk Dogecoin?

Elon Musk likes being famous, and he likes power — many people probably do. What’s interesting is that with Bitcoin, he doesn’t have influence on it, due to Bitcoin’s already strong following. In other words, he could not take over Bitcoin and set the direction for it, as it’s already too strong for that.

Uită-te la unele dintre cele mai importante criptomonede, în afară de Bitcoin: fratele meu, Charlie Lee, este fața publică a Litecoin (LTC). eter (ETH) are un fondator foarte public, Vitalik Buterin. În spatele Tether (USDT) este Jean-Louis Van Der Velde. Binance Coin (BNB) are Changpeng Zhao, so on and so forth, and they cannot be taken over because there are notable people in the driver’s seats, so to speak. Finally, you have Dogecoin, which was created to be similar to a hobby project, but then the founders of Dogecoin seemed to have disappeared, and DOGE was not actively maintained.

Here is an interesting theory: Elon Musk found out about the tragedy of Dogecoin and realized it could be something that he could take control over. He could become the new head of Dogecoin. (That’s why I think he didn’t choose any other cryptocurrencies, as they had their own beloved founders and leaders). With such a strong, famous leader of Dogecoin, the price skyrocketed. That’s my theory, but in general, I don’t like centralized digital currencies. The fact that you can take over Dogecoin and set the direction single-handedly is a bad sign for Dogecoin. To me, that’s not very interesting.

Acest articol este dintr-un interviu susținut de Max Yakubowski cu Bobby Lee. A fost condensat și editat.

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