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We've banned this account. Please don't register accounts for the purpose of taunting people and posting ideological rhetoric and flamebait. THe guidelines are clear that this is not what HN is for. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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> Now I'm not trying to argue that bitcoin doesn't waste a lot of energy, it totally does. Bitcoin doesn't waste energy, it uses energy to encode and secure the blockchain. The federal reserve (corrupt as it is) does not waste energy to print dollar bills, it is just part of the process of creation.
> Bitcoin doesn't waste energy, it uses energy to encode and secure the blockchain. Which is a waste of energy.
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Yes if you compare a proof of stake blockchains (most of them) and the banking industry, crypto has a far smaller environmental footprint. Ethereum (since PoS) was designed to allow anybody to run a validator or even a full node out of modest hardware. The result is that the entire network probably has a smaller footprint than a single small/medium size bank.
>the entire network probably has a smaller footprint than a single small/medium size bank What research or statistics can you suggest to bolster this argument?
Validators are low requirements, in the RPI ballpark and and a lot if them are combined on a single host.
Then you also need some full nodes to access the data or submit transactions. So you can consider them part of the core infrastructure and those have higher requirements in terms of bandwidth and speed/capacity of storage but also CPU. But still a mini PC is fine.
Let's say a bank have 10k employees, you already might need more computer power just with their "laptops".
Now Ethereum is a global network competing with all the network of banks all around the world. So you can do a quick calculation its footprint is magnitude lower.
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The percentage of classical fiat used for crime is negligible, when compared with the percentage of blockhain fiat used for crimes. Moreover, classical fiat makes steps to make crime like ransomware or kidnapping impractical. While crypto fiat works on making them easy
>The percentage of classical fiat used for crime is negligible, when compared with the percentage of blockhain fiat used for crimes. If the goal is to prevent crime then going after a currency based on percentage is stupid. Nobody cares about what percent, they care about what's actually happening and that's where the astronomically larger amount of fiat crime matters. >Moreover, classical fiat makes steps to make cr…
I absolutely care. Classical money system has regulations that make crime like ransomware or (physical) kidnapping impractical. Cryptocrap enables them. The entire ransomware field became possible _just_ because of it.
> Monero prevents mass surveillance which makes our society more free.
Hell no. Monero and other cryptocrap so far produced Trump, enabled CSAM, enabled North Korea to bypass sanctions, and so on.
They did not increase freedom for anybody but criminals. Go on, list the positive outcomes enabled by cryptocrap that are at least commensurate with its harm. I'll wait.
As with the AI ban this was a community decision done by a majority vote. It seems that most people commenting or writing articles in the last few days don't have a Codeberg account or never visit the forum.
The “majority” is a fiction. I received no email from Codeberg, nor was I aware that a vote was taking place. I use Codeberg as my main code forge. My projects are not vibe-coded, but some are indirectly related to cryptocurrency in that they use some of the same technologies. This decision appears arbitrary, and I no longer trust Codeberg to host my code for the long term. What will the 'majority' come up with next…
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Sloppy and low effort reply. Claude does a better job. I'd paste the output but it's against the rules on HN. You can find it on lobsters though, where I did post the full reply along with the prompt in response to the exact same cop out. To this day , it's still the only coherent definition of "slop" in the entire 300+ comment thread I posted it in. Not bad for a clanker, huh?
Ain't no point being proud of what you didn't do
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I don't know what the actual stance is, and what counts as cryptocurrency or why the decision was made. But I tried clicking on the link cited in the OP that would explain this ( https://forum.codeberg.org/d/82-taking-a-stance-against-cryp... ) and it got 404. And getting a 404 on a host that's supposed to host code, now that is completely unacceptable and makes you want to stay far away indeed.
The forum is only for members of the non-profit. I'm guessing the page is 404 because we are not dues-paying members, which is reasonable.
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I wouldn't call Drew DeVault stable, he crashed out after 4chan simultaneously exposed his creation of the RMS report alongside his huge loli porn fixation.
He may not be, but the product has been. Same goes with Theo and OpenBSD. Hyper-productive people are often volatile. Putting up with it is a necessary tradeoff, as the systems they produce often fill a niche that nobody else will serve adequately.
Drew I think is just kind of a dick who has a history of putting his personal crusades before delivering a product people want. I remember a few years back sourcehut being reported as unstable and he went and lashed out at people who were complaining to him about it instead of fixing the issues. And he banned crypto projects cause he doesn't like them, at least Codeberg held it to a vote.
Patrick Volkerding is a pretty stable guy, I think he's the model more BDFLs should strive to be.
I don't think you want to store your source code in a place where they ban projects based on politics [1]: > Allowing these projects is not a neutral stance; the effects to the environment are severe. The "DarkFi" (seemingly some crypto designed for criminals, citing an FBI director) project for example uses a "PoW blockchain" (per their readme). PoW (Proof-Of-Work) projects waste an astonishing amount of computation…