WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days

Post by rglullis » Thu, Mar 18, 2021, 5:09 PM UTC

blablabla123 wrote: post #226

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The whole reason we care about the environment is so we can keep living in it. What should we do instead, leave the turtles to inherit the earth and yeet ourselves into the sun?

Exactly that. We destroy our tourist destinations, beaches, food sources, areas where to live, landscapes for desktop backgrounds, the air and the water. Lost in useless economic abstractions.

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Mar 18, 2021, 5:17 PM UTC

skohan wrote: post #24

Just to put this in perspective, the global population of mountain gorillas is 1,063, so this represents the symbolic adoption of over 3 times the mountain gorillas alive in the wild! I hope this unexpected boon in capital will allow for some meaningful work in preserving and protecting these rare animals. It would be an interesting footnote in history if we can look back in 50 years and draw a line between an intern…

Post by chad_strategic » Thu, Mar 18, 2021, 5:25 PM UTC

xwdv wrote: post #173

Why doesn't hackernews adopt something or do something like this? Software developers are rolling in money, and it's not that expensive. Guess we're too busy eating the world.

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Mar 18, 2021, 5:27 PM UTC

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Just in time for fusion power.

Fwiw the PoS network is already running, with $6 billion staked and 100,000 validators. Migrating the rest of the network is relatively simple, they're just being really careful with it.

Post by salawat » Thu, Mar 18, 2021, 5:31 PM UTC

thebean11 wrote: post #193

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Uh... Selling a single token? 8.7MWh[1] That's slightly less than the average US household consumes in a year. [1] https://www.wired.com/story/nfts-hot-effect-earth-climate/

Creating a token does not consume any additional energy. Transaction volume does _not_ scale with mining so it's a really bad comparison. The energy is spent to secure the network regardless of how many transactions are processed (in practice, transaction volume is pretty much fixed in terms of "bytes of transactions")