[1] - https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/10/10/isiss-new-plans-to-get-...
I may be an antirevolutionary to the bone, but seeing some comments like these really make me reevaluate my priors.
Your comment is so unrealistic and glosses over so many details I wonder if you're the type of politician that gets elected by saying you'll ban the Internet or force porn sites to require identification, and then have to face reality that it's a little more complicated than that.
I wouldn't even know where to start explaining that what you're asking for is a very hard problem even for a very closed political and economical system like China.
I think you're saying this would be a big hassle, maybe for miners. Can you explain that more?
- One can create an unlimited number of addresses for a single wallet. The size of your banned_addresses.csv updated every morning is for all intents and purposes unbounded.
- The hard problem is proving if the beneficiary is an Iranian national. It's already difficult to do in the regular economy with KYC regulations and everything is government controlled (shell companies, etc.), doing so with Bitcoin is even harder. I don't mean hard as in "the US govt has the resources to do it", I mean hard as it's pretty much impossible.
Please don't take this the wrong way, but learn a little bit about Bitcoin, if you really want to do something about the problems it poses. It's overall pretty simple. Otherwise you're just another person that has strong opinions about something they don't know anything about.
How much oil could be saved if the US decided to abandon this failed experiment called "American Suburbia" and started to plan for a urban environment that is not car-dependent?
No one is stating that this might not be an issue.
People are totally able to complain about multiple things.
But let me tell you: it's much easier to bash crypto as it's new and fresh and very scammy and bad. It's a good thing that we stand up and say no to it for now to stop the already giant waste it creates.
We don't need an Additional co2 creater with zero benefit.
Ethereum will switch to PoS next month, and there will be hundreds of thousands of nodes around the world, in aggregate they will run on a fraction of the energy consumed by the millions of video game consoles while idling.
By all means, complain about Proof of Work all you want but get off the high horse. Those "bashing crypto" and talk about "the waste it creates" are usually so covered in privilege they can't even be bothered to actually go to put the numbers in perspective.
I'm aware of it.
Eth hasn't switched yet, the GPU problem was real and the terrawatts 'crypto' consumes is also real.
Of course I simply slightly when I don't 'bother' to name not 10 or 50 different pow blockchains but why not?
The general problem exists. It hurts us all much more than it helps and crypto threads are the correct place to comment on this issue.
And yes the current drought might not be created by crypto alone but that doesn't make it any better.
Then it is not ignorance, which leaves you the alternative: dishonesty.
What really pisses me off is the perma-comment of "we don't need crypto", "there are no use cases", "it is only for scams", etc. Go ask people in Argentina how they are managing to keep some sense of financial normalcy, lots of them will tell you "crypto".
Let's ignore how most people in El Salvador are not able to use their crypto because they don't understand it. Let's ignore that most of them not even understand lightning.
Let's ignore that the evil actors can miss use crypto as well which weakens sanctions.
Completely ignore all other obvious issues with crypto which have been brought up by me and others without any answer to them as long as there is the one person in <add country> who apparently is able to exchange their money with crypto.
Let's also ignore that plenty of people have been exchanging their unsta Le currency with other money before crypto like us or euro.
Who ever was able to exchange their money to crypto would have been able to do so without crypto...
Let's also ignore that 99,9999 % of people will be hurt by all the co2 before they have ever any benefit of crypto.
And as my final argument: crypto means that everyone who started to do it early gets more value in out of crypto as everyone after them. No one in their sane mind will ever switch their money over into crypto and loosing out by making the earlier adopters even richer.
Cryptobros go f yourself...
You keep hitting the wrong drum. Again, get off the high horse. Come back when you understand that I am on your side in regards to Bitcoin, even though your arguments are completely misguided.
Otherwise if a copy of a music album makes it's way to a street vendor in Iran is Pink in trouble?
The your democratically elected official can only control waste of electricity in the region they live.
Even less so on issues like this, where the two privileged parties have the exact same policy despite it not benefiting the American people.