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Looks like this is mostly about PoW.

Here's a recent report on the environmental impact of PoS:

http://blockchain.cs.ucl.ac.uk/blockchain-energy-consumption...



PoS does not work

https://endthefud.org/PoW


Nano uses dPoS and has worked for years.

Your link is just another Bitcoin maxi with awful logic. No, pumping money into pointless mining doesn't make a coin actually more valuable. It's just a waste. Out of all the real value crypto can bring - speed, trustlessness, decentralisation - mining isn't actually needed for any of it. It just forces things into a pyramid shape.


Saying it doesn't change the fact that PoS systems are protecting nearly $200B right now, and growing faster than PoW systems.




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