Currently Bitcoin is an insane gold-rush bubble that is frivolous and wasteful but it has the potential to balance out into the secure, distributed, democratized digital currency it was designed to be and I think that is something worth spending energy on.
On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 9:58 AM, Julie Marchant <[email protected]> wrote: > Ugh, did it again. Sorry. > > On 2017年12月28日 04:13, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > it's > > too close to the exploitation i've witnessed - and my friend has > > recently uncovered clear and blatant evidence of. mining however is > > *completely* different, not least because it, in no way, *actually* > > involves actual cash, and it is not directly related to "exchange > > rates" or the trading of currencies, at all. > > So, you're somehow ethically opposed to trading Bitcoin for money, and > yet not ethically opposed to trading it for goods? That doesn't make a > lick of sense, Luke. Money is just a representation of how many goods > and services you have produced for others. Economically, there is *no > difference* between giving someone Bitcoin for USD and giving someone > Bitcoin for food. > > You know what's unethical? Mining Bitcoin. Because as has already been > mentioned, mining Bitcoin uses a *ton* of energy, and it doesn't > actually produce anything in the end. Isn't one of the main features of > EOMA68 being environmentally responsible? Well, using Bitcoin mining > (through a scheme like this, no less) to fund something that is supposed > to be environmentally responsible is the height of hypocrisy. (And yes, > it would be funding EOMA68, regardless of whatever kind of weaseling you > might do to say it isn't. If you depend on it to work on EOMA68, it's > funding EOMA68.) > > Just one question: is canceling support for the CrowdSupply campaign an > option if you go through with this? > > -- > Julie Marchant > https://onpon4.github.io > > Protect your emails with GnuPG: > https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org > > _______________________________________________ > arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] > http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook > Send large attachments to [email protected] > _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
