Crypto predictions, dead or not.

Would you buy any crypto

  • Yes

    Votes: 8 22.9%
  • No

    Votes: 18 51.4%
  • Go back to south Australia

    Votes: 9 25.7%

  • Total voters
    35

Squidfayce

Eats Squid
Environmentalist credentials of the author aside, participating specifically in this market doesn't have to involve a wanton disregard for the environment or energy crisis. Many large scale miners are actually moving or have moved to green energy to offset their increasing energy costs.

I participated without adding to the environmental impact at all. Before you tell me that by me or anyone else participating in it at any level i/we are contributing, I'd ask you to think about all the things you participate in that actually add to your carbon foot print directly. Car, food, heating, cooling, travel, having kids (the single largest shit thing you can do for the environment BTW) etc. I jumped on my phone and pressed a few buttons. I doubt anymore than a few joules of energy was expended doing so, less than writing this reply anyway.

As a whole i somewhat understand that some amount of energy is being expended on this that wasn't before, and without it there would be an overall less impact "somewhat", but in the grand scheme of things if it wasn't this, it would be something else. IMO there's no point decrying something like this in a capitalist society - it falls on deaf ears. Might as well make some money to spend on our carbon footprint while were going to hell.
 

Squidfayce

Eats Squid
^ think you might have missed the point a bit.
i dont think i did. but if you mean the NYtimes article, no i posted it as a reasonable view from both ends of the spectrum. The point being the goal is to move away from causing as much of an environmental impact as possible while making money. You know, like all other industry is/should be doing.

Tell me again that this system isn’t nuttier than a bluetit’s breakfast. Tell me the dyke of unreality isn’t rumbling. That a crisis is not building to inevitability.
I'm just not there.
 
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Scotty T

Walks the walk
On the impact of trading this currency, comparing to driving my car etc. Apples and oranges.

But, I think more and more every day about all the decisions I make and what is the impact on climate change.

This has a negative impact that I don't need to make, especially for a bit of gambling fun.
 

johnny

I'll tells ya!
Staff member
Didn't read the article, but a belief that non-capitalist nations don't cause horrific impacts to the environment, just the same as unethical capitalism does, is misplaced.

Again, I didn't read the article, just going off half cocked with the likelihood of looking like a full cock.
 

moorey

call me Mia
Your preference differs?
That’s not what I said.
I’m definitely not anti-capitalist, but it’s not a fair system for most, when nothing they have done or could do, will give them a shot at a decent life. That’s bootstrap bullshit.
My2c. I don’t have your political chops or Oddjob’s economic chops, it’s just how I see it.
 

johnny

I'll tells ya!
Staff member
That’s not what I said.
I’m definitely not anti-capitalist, but it’s not a fair system for most, when nothing they have done or could do, will give them a shot at a decent life. That’s bootstrap bullshit.
My2c. I don’t have your political chops or Oddjob’s economic chops, it’s just how I see it.
Didn't say you said nuffink, just asked the question as it suggested you might prefer another system.

I don't deny the fallacy of the level playing field and I don't deny the faults of unethical capitalism. What does seem true, though, is that disadvantage doesn't differ across systems - being born into the wrong family sucks just as much in the US as it did in Soviet Russia, China today or in Socialist Cuba. The problem isn't the system, the problem is us.
 
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