Helitio

Sooooo Cryptopunks are apparently quite expensive.

Have you seen them?

I do like the beeple stuff as he is a genuine curios interesting person.

But then again in the top nft list is a clock?

Tell me pls how the color idea is stupid while the punks are not? Or the clock?

Or those apes?

I'm using 2fa for email as well. It made my life more secure.

When I read this announcement I was happy because this means 2fa is getting even more known,.accepted and used.

I would disagree.

He did everything reasonable. Spend a good amount of time and resources on this project.

He clearly acted on the thought I have had plenty of times: I should just start my own nft token and become rich.

I might have struggled way less from a pure technical standpoint but I would have tried it very similar.

This gives my mind a good feeling and I appreciate his effort.

It also explained to me how you create nfts.

It's about appreciation of the craft itself.

Those watches have a fundamental cultural value to us.

Keeping time is now very easy and cheap but those watches reflect the history of keeping time.

And there is a tremendous amount of craftsmanship in them. Older ones are only handmade and even modern watches from high class manufacturer are still made by watchmakers.

No one buys them if they don't care or don't have the money.

Those watches have a lot of personal skill embedded in them.

It reflects the opposite of mass production.

Feel free to look for good watchmaker docus on yt.

I'm an adult and played around with TikTok half a year ago.

It is shocking ly addictive without any real benefit.

Watching funny or weird stuff for 2h or seeing opinions from some weird people did not add anything to my life

I deleted the app to get out of it.

What you are currently doing is called a strawman argument.

I have not mentioned IF I think those use cases are less or more bad than Bitcoin. Your argument becomes irrelevant when I say 'yes! Good point let us also stop doing Christmas lights etc.

Independent of this, I even have the feeling that I read the exact example before on hn.

But just for the fun of it: yes we need to do much much more. It would be a good way to list the biggest energy consumers and rank them based on alhow helpful they are for the whole world and how critical.

Bitcoin would be below plenty of things.

Anyway I can and will continue to advocate against Bitcoin as it consumes terrawatts of energy, has very little benefit to the rest of the world and people try to play this issue down by putting weird renewable arguments out there which are just lie's.

We need to push back. Most of us are getting hurt by Bitcoin. Either to additional climate change, speculation/gambling or by hardware supply issues.

I bet 99% people here paid for Bitcoin more than they made through it. The higher GPU price, higher taxes through climate changehigher utility costs.

Just a note: being able to click yourself a server at Google, AWS etc. Might be cheap enough even paying for 15tb of traffic.

I see it as a working device and I often look at screens a lot of time per day, week, mo the, year and decade.

I don't buy often new displays but spending 1k is in my opinion a no brainer for a good display.

My last display in broke due to an incident with a tent pole. So normally my displays don't really break

We can do plenty against it. We can advocate for laws etc.

And it's not just me who thinks 'other' uses are more critical: even you prefer light over bitcoins. You probably prefer goods and services also higher than Bitcoin hashes.

And in a world hurt by co2, everyone who has to suffer the consequences from climate change would also tell you what they think if they knew and could tell you.

Are you advocating to use renewable for Bitcoin mining instead?

Because that will only work as soon as we reached full saturation of renewable energy production and consumption.

Otherwise it will always be more lucrative to consume the renewable through Bitcoin than using it for everything else.

A EV car fuel consumption would need to cost more than what Bitcoin can make. A very unhealthy relationship Bitcoin has on consuming energy.

The only real possibility is creating a Bitcoin heater system but most of the time I see Bitcoin mines I'm seeing also AC's which increases the energy consumption even further.

And no, the demand for renewable from Bitcoin will not mean we will create and invest more money into renewable energy overall with a net positive it will only add to more Bitcoin mining.