Interdependence

Ethereum Energy Numbers are in! Moral calculations and web 3 critiques with Kyle McDonald

Jan 11, 2022

01:45:36

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Is Proof of Work the Key to Cryptocurrency Security?

02:31

Having Access to These Figures Would Allow for a Constructive Vision of How to Reduce Harm Per Dollar

03:12

I Don't Think That the Introduction of These New Networks Is Going to Produce Some Kind of Utopia

02:47

Introduction

3min

Graory's, It's Going to Be Interesting

2min

Fat Lab

5min

The Secret Service Experience

4min

You Know What's Going on With Appleliketin?

2min

What Was Your Initial Motivation to Start a Research Project?

3min

Ethereum and Machine Learning

4min

Is the International Energy Agency a Secret?

6min

Etherium Energy Use and Omissions Index

4min

10.

Etherium's Energis and Omissions

2min

11.

Is There a Way to Summarize the Electricity Consumption?

3min

12.

Is There a Currency?

2min

13.

Gaming, Is a Utility?

2min

14.

Is There a Global Omissions Crisis?

5min

15.

The Scale of the Damage Is Getting Closer

2min

16.

Human Energy

2min

17.

Having Access to These Figures Would Allow for a Constructive Vision of How to Reduce Harm Per Dollar

3min

18.

Is Proof of Work the Key to Cryptocurrency Security?

3min

19.

Bitcoin Doesn't Use Enough Energy, Right?

6min

20.

Is It a Proof of Work Network?

2min

21.

Is Open Seas a Part of the Proof of Work Ecosystem?

4min

22.

The Transparency of Block Chains

3min

23.

Crypto Group Therbe Telegram

5min

24.

Crypto and the Stock Market

4min

25.

The Sneaker Show Is a Bad Idea, Right?

4min

26.

The Transparency of Interdependence

1min

27.

Is It Good to Be Good?

5min

28.

I'm Not a Futureologist, So I Don't See That Far Into the Future

4min

29.

I Don't Think That the Introduction of These New Networks Is Going to Produce Some Kind of Utopia

3min

30.

Is the Source of Value in the Music Industry?

5min

31.

The Cryptolibertarian Economy

3min

32.

The Art Project That Follows It

3min

Big one this week, artist and researcher Kyle McDonald did the gruelling work to calculate the energy and carbon cost of Ethereum, and we try to break down those numbers, calculate their relative impact, discuss critiques of web 3 and debate why they are mostly coming from where they are coming from.

Ethereum Emissions: https://kylemcdonald.github.io/ethereum-emissions/

Kyle's art: https://kylemcdonald.net/

Follow Kyle: https://twitter.com/kcimc

Who Pays Artists?: http://www.whopaysartists.com/

People staring at computers: https://www.wired.com/2012/07/people-staring-at-computers/

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