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Prove it
> I'm still glad to take your $1,000 if you'd like a full tutorial
Post your tutorial on twitter on how to run a full node from scratch, using your own hardware, and I'll give you $1000 to buy some NFT's
Energy is, at this moment, being overproduced by design
The reason for this is because in case there is an emergency (like a snowstorm in TX) energy producers can switch on overdrive and heat homes.
By increasing the amount of energy capacity we have, we become more resilient to situations that require massive amounts of energy. Society needs an increase in energy production in order to uplift the lifestyle of the world, there is no way around that.
Not gonna make it... also if you looked into the costs it would lose you money if you took me up on that bet.
I have a better idea: Stacks sats and stay humble.
Please do like the OP and make better FUD so we can clown you in the comments further. Also, Bitcoin is a net-positive for the environment no matter how "mean" people like me are to you. Run the numbers
I heard Ethereum has a GREAT community, they even do synchronized dances in Unicorn outfits! Also they are moving towards PoS, so it won't boil the oceans like BTC.
You should really look into it! People from SV/HN find it much friendlier than the toxicity in the BTC community.
Improving the lives of 100 million people by giving them a way to save money without a government agency. If you can't figure out why that has value, you're probably are a beneficiary of anglo centric privilege, and in that case I hope you NEVER buy any BTC.
> I had to look this one up.
Remember it. It won't be the last time someone says this to you
100 Million people have benefitted from Bitcoin and it's censorship resistant network.
If you can't figure out why this trillion dollar network has value, I can honestly say I am jealous of your financial and anglo centric privilege and hope you never acquire any Bitcoin, you obviously don't deserve it.
Bitcoin doesn't "move fast and break things"... it just keeps chugging along every 10 minutes adding new blocks and ignoring the naysayers crying about the energy usage.
If they were really concerned, they would stop taking flights across the country to talk about their useless startup at a conference nobody wants to be at.
Instead they try to police the world's energy, and don't realize Bitcoin will drive unsubsidized renewable energy faster than any government program.
Can't make this stuff up
Typical HN/SV response when it comes to Bitcoin. I'll give anyone on here $1000 in BTC/USD/ETH if they document how to run a full node on Ethereum before May 2021. It's impossible to do without state of the art tech and bandwidth.
Bitcoin on the other hand, can be run on a Raspberry Pi, and people can agree on how many Bitcoin exist at ANY time.
How many Ethereum exist right now? Pro tip: Nobobdy can agree
It saved my world, and millions of others.
All the things HN pundits love to talk about, but when it comes to actually making the world a better place, people like you become Luddites and naysayers.
HFSP
HN readers have been a zombie-like mob when it comes to ignoring Bitcoin, it's sad to see a otherwise smart group of people miss out on the biggest thing since the Internet.
The block rewards are a small portion of the reason a miner like Fidelity would secure the network... it's about preserving the past as well.
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HN doesn't want to admit it, but Bitcoin has surpassed Silicon Valley, and they can't cope with it
Imagine feeling like the smartest person in class who missed out on getting rich from Internet money.
People in 100 years will be saying this about social media, not Bitcoin
Keep building!
It's not an environmental thing that gets transferred by geography so comparing the commute distance doesn't make sense. More accurate correlation would be household income in the neighborhoods there is lack of Internet.
Does this sound like a group of guys who just accomplished the most impressive feat of human innovation?
I'm pretty sure we are the product, not the customer.
Think about what that means... advertisers spend money to get in front of people based on the data they think is important for their business, right?
It's derived from all of our data, which we are not getting paid for. Do you think these companies would be worth trillions if they weren't profiting off data we give them for free?
Jack built an app for this exact use case.
I wonder who their LP's would be...