Hugo Nguyen

great thread !

Great thread. I’m 100% aligned with @JasonPLowery on PoW as long as he stays away from the “PoW is violence” analogy. 🙂 Violence is also an abstraction, the same way stake is an abstraction. Whereas energy usage is rooted in physics. Ground your arguments in math/physics (!).

Well-researched article packed with info about PoW invention and Bitcoin energy requirement. Thanks for the quote @kudzaikutukwa.

Insightful article from @LynAldenContact. I love this question: “[…] are there use-cases for a partially-centralized and partially-decentralized database?” My answer is no. Because it’s a highly slippery slope. 1/

On the many misconceptions of Bitcoin energy usage, watch this video by @nic__carter and @gladstein. Before asking about waste, ask about value, as with everything else in life. The long form: