It's quickly becoming a replacement for Google for me. When I want to know more about a topic I don't usually go to Google or Wikpedia as often, instead I'll start a dialog with Claude about the topic.
I also use it for writing, exploring complex topics or as a sounding board for interpersonal issues.
Not just energy, crypto is also using far more rare earth minerals and metals in their excessive utilization of CPUs and GPUs. Batteries to keep things running when power goes out. It's wasting so very many of our resources. There is no defense.
Crypto is so inherently wasteful it's completely unethical. At least they're trying to use hydro here but by and large, this is an unreasonable resource grab.
To add to this, the article states it's the equivalent of 570,000 apartments worth of energy.
To what end? There is still no real use case for bitcoin, it can't compete with any modern financial transaction system in performance, it's difficult to secure, it's just a bad deal and I can't understand how we've allowed it to grow as much as it has.
Yeah, the moderation became insane. Every question is a duplicate, every answer is moderated out.
The answers on github and across the web are always much much better and more up to date. I can't remember the last time SO had the answer I wanted or needed.
Your asterisk is in no way a recent phenomenon. Advertisers have directed changes to television shows and magazines to prevent being placed near something with content they worry will impact their brand.
Yeah but the collapse of those exchanges drove down the price of the coins. Even if its your keys and your coins those coins become worth less money than they were before.
I also use it for writing, exploring complex topics or as a sounding board for interpersonal issues.