Topic: Mining Bitcoin Doesn't Need To Worry About Spending Electricity - page 2. (Read 448 times)

Yes, electricity is not serious problem. May places where landing bitcoin-farm?
PoS and Bitcoin? It's will never happened. IMHO

people really need to research more about Proof of Stake before they start advertising it as a better alternative to Proof of Work that bitcoin works. stop being emotional about mining and the electricity and start really thinking about it. POS is a horrible algorithm for a decentralized network like bitcoin. the fact that some altcoins are using it doesn't mean it is a good thing. in fact it has a worse design, specially when it comes to distribution of new coins and also it has its own flaws and security risks.

PoS is not the solution, so just get that out of your head. It is a flawed concept and why change something that stood the test of time? If you look at the combined electricity that the Banking sector are using, then it is much worst than the little bit of electricity that Bitcoin is using.

Also, a lot of electricity being used for Bitcoin mining are coming from renewable/clean resources.   

You know, the crypto market is stuck right now and you have to do a big research before you'll start mining.
I think it's better not to mine as it takes much money for electricity bills, but to trade.
Or you can try signing in some blockchain based messengers which allow you to gain some crypto for posting and chatting or simply being online.

Anyway you don't have to believe in crypto only, try to find a new job as coins are not in the best condition these days.

no they didnt
imagine it this way.
50exahash...
thats 50,000,000,000,000mhash
thats ~10,000,000,000,000 CPU  
thats ~333,000,000,000 GPU
thats ~3,600,000 asics

though bitcoin is "CPU/GPU resistant" some think.. have you actually costed out the cost of GPU/CPU mining bitcoin

you would blame intel / AMD that you need to buy 1 trillion PC's just to have a 10% slice of the hashrate pie
you would blame AMD/nvidia that you need to buy 33billion GPU just to have a 10% slice of the hashrate pie

you only need 360,000 ASICS to have 10% of hashrate pie. and right now an asic is ~$500 each
its far cheaper to mine due to asics than with a PC's

....
put it this way. pools can only collate transactions and make a hash of that blocks collection of transactions..
(they are not in control of programming the rules of the network, they collate the data to meet rules. not create rules)

if software devs made is so every 3.6million blocks had a unique IP and device ID (utopia of everyone has a chance)
3.6 million people just need 1 ASIC costing them $500.. but
...but would require 92500 GPU's costing each of the 3.6million people $18,500,000 per person ($200 per gpu)

asics didnt cause the problem.

also to note: even with PoS. people are now syndicating 'stake' into pools. thus hobby stakers have the same solo vs pool screams.

The problem is that Bitmain and big companies with their asics already made it difficult for everyone to run his hobby nowadays  
I prefer asic resistance network although I didn't join any of it yet.

Plus because it does not cost anything to "mine" more coins and get richer, the originators of a Proof of Stake system will be granted perpetual powers by its users. Why should we grant them perpetual powers over us, and who gave them that right to give it on themselves? The issuance of the coins costed them nothing.

This is laughable because the title is different from the content. I still don't understand why a POS coin has value, I have read topics like Masternodes  argument but hosting a node is different from POW  and with time people find out that with increasing inflation of MN coins the price suffered along and it is more of a Mattew Effect in play because the rich just get richer

Talking Electricity Mining to Bitcoin, currently Bitcoin around the world uses 0.5% of the world's electricity. In the new method to determine Bitcoin energy use a few years from now, and the expected results are quite safe for the rest,

In estimates are:
Bitcoin is currently using electricity worldwide at 2.55 gigawatts, equivalent to Ireland's electricity, the 118th largest country in the world by land.
this is equivalent to half a percent of the world's total electricity usage so don't worry about the electricity that Bitcoin miners use for the future is still safe.

Nice way to draw a sharp contrast and paint bitcoin miners as 'dishonest' without actual  implying it
People are entitled to their opinion, but they should not present it as fact or use it as a strategy to draw others to their side.

The POW algorithm has been very successful since it was implemented on the bitcoin blockchain. And very secure.
While POS just requires those with deeper pockets to earn more by simply chinking the coins in their pockets, POW requires them to do actual work and ran there reward every single time.

I am a little confused with this technology, how does this technology work so that it can minimize the use of electricity? besides, does the mineral device still use the previous tool or the device is also updated?
there are still many who need to explain in more detail so that it is easy to understand.
or give me a source of information about what you wrote.

WHY?
why is using electricity a "serious problem" only when it comes to bitcoin and millions of others that are using electricity (most of which are actually wasting it) are never talked about?

nobody chooses PoS for any reason other than what Franky said: to make free money.
also you are missing the point that all those who choose PoS are doing it because they know that their coin is useless and because of it nobody will ever waste their time "mining" it so they want to make it as easy as possible for the network to exist
not to mention that PoS is also flawed!

funny part is that the PoS lovers are not actually environmentalists. thy are infact people that dont want to pay for resources to get more coin, they just want free coin for no extra work.

it costs nothing extra/new for a PoS user to create blocks.
call it what it is...most yuppies understand. Proof of Lambo
if you have money/lambo you can create more money without having to spend more

just imagine if gold mining changed from a proof of work(diesel from excavators) costing the miner $1000 an ounce diesel burn. and turned it into PoS("i own a lambo gimme coin") costing nothing per coin but just waving THE SAME lambo's pinkslip/logbook every time.

yep those with a lambo get richer but the security level of the PoS chain does not toughen/get stronger. it just gives funds more often to those that just own more lambo's that they earned simply by owning lambo's

environmentally bitcoin is not doing any damage. as bitcoin miners are buying up EXCESS electric thats burned anyway, even if not used

here is few lessons to all the hobby miners trying to scream "eco friendly" as a ploy to try swaying others to consider PoS
1. the gap between electricity production vs demand.. and the actual math of PoW electric used shows that mining does not exceed the excess gap. so most farms are just paying for the gap that would have gone to waste. (its like buying out of date but still edible food to prevent it going to landfill)

2. PoS if enabled wont give local guy in his basement hobby miner a chance to earn coin mining a PoS. instead it will be the rich guys with lots of coin, gaining mor coin. and increasing their chances of getting more coin.. without increasing the chains security

3. if you think that anti-PoW = fair funds for small guys, you would be wrong. what will happen is people will syndicate(join stake) essentially pool funds together and one person then creates the blocks on the pools behalf. thus becoming the same 'pooled' scenario. but at zero actual cost and zero increase of difficulty

Digital money such as Bitcoin is known to have serious problems, where they rely on electrical energy with considerable power requirements or proof of work to mine it. However, there are now other options or choices.

Honest Mining's Chief Executive Officer, Lawrence Samantha, said that around 20 percent of companies that are in this business have moved to an option called proof of stake.
At present he is supporting these companies to use proof of stake. Lawrence explained that this scheme makes electricity far more economical.

The adoption of this technology, called Lawrence, will not affect business. However, he stressed that proof of stake is far more environmentally friendly and power efficient.
He said, if previously focused on the 'work' side, now the new technology is more concerned with the 'stake' or ownership of digital coins.
The use of proof of stake Lawrence claims is superior when viewed from various sides. This is evident because several companies that run the new project have adopted it. And, more than 20 percent of the digital coin business in the world already uses this technology.
"The new project has entirely used proof of stake. If the old one is in the process of being considered. It may still be the stage of sight-seeing. The Ethereum company which is in fact the second largest in the world will also move soon. The process is long because the network is extensive," said Lawrence .