
Crypto for Beginners with Kevin Roose
Offline with Jon Favreau
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Cryptocurrency Is Bad for the Environment
The two most popular crypto currencies, bit coin and a thorium, both run um on proof of work block chain. Proof of work block chains are essentially designed to waste a bunch of energy in order to provide security to the network. And so you essentially have like a useless set of computations that require a ton of energy being conducted at all times to power these networks.
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