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Antitrust: Web3, DAOs, ICOs & Protocols

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How to Reduce the Energy Use of a Bit Coin Mining Network

To verify one block for bict coin. It takes the same electricity that one point five million american households use in a day. This is devastating to the planet, and it's a major barrier for crypto. We're talking about a system which is built from the ground up to encourage people to use about 200 thousand pounds less of electricity ten minutes. That, when you scale it up, is about two and a half times the energy use per year of amazon, apple, facebook, microsopt and google combined. A hundred and 20 terrible hours of electricity. But salana uses a proof of stak consensus plus a proof of history, which is a decentralised source of time

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