> it does not make any sense in 2021 to have a currency that need heavy computation thus increasing power consumption
Because it makes so much sense to dedicate equal or if not vastly greater resources to playing games?
Because it makes so much sense to dedicate equal or if not vastly greater resources to playing games?
So no, not equal, not greater, in fact lower. And I think the Graphics Processing Unit should process graphics, don't you?
Mining needs more resources to solve a brute force problem whose difficulty is increased just for the sake of making the problem even harder to solve.