Capisco che per le blockchain proof-of-work questa possa essere una riflessione abbastanza legittima, ma ci sono anche sistemi che usano meccanismi diversi e che non dipendono dal mining. Sbaglio io a considerarle piú sostenibili?
On Mon, Jan 3, 2022, 12:13 Antonio Iacono <anto...@piumarossa.it> wrote: > Interessante conversazione tra Evgeny Morozov e Sanneke Kloppenburg [1] > > La parte che "mi piace" di più è comunque la fine: > > There is, of course, a third, even more radical possibility: the boycott > of anything related to blockchains and cryptocurrencies, not least > because they have a huge environmental impact. Some scholars, like Pete > Howson, for example, have called for global bans (or least limitations) > on crypto-mining due to their disastrous impact on emissions (which we > probably still underestimate). So, there’s always the option of moving > from “blowing up a pipeline” in the colorful formulation of Andreas Malm > to “blowing up a blockchain.” What are you thoughts on this more radical > option? > > Blockchain, like many other digital technologies, does have a huge > environmental footprint. There is now an increasing effort to develop > guidelines and regulations for the responsible use of digital > technologies, for example by the EU and by standard setting > organisations. The goal of such guidelines and regulations is to > mitigate the societal implications of digital technology. The harmful > environmental impacts of digital technologies, however, do not get the > same amount of attention yet. > > Often the energy consumption of technologies, but also the more systemic > environmental risks of using digital technologies, is an externality, > which remains invisible and hard to quantify. This is a serious problem, > which goes beyond the case of the blockchain, as it also applies to > Artificial Intelligence, for example. It is crucial to better integrate > sustainability in these efforts to regulate the societal impact of > digital technology. The sustainability aspects of technologies should > not be an afterthought, but taken into account already when a technology > is proposed or designed. > > A. > > [1] > > https://the-crypto-syllabus.com/sanneke-kloppenburg-on-climate-cryptogovernance/ > > _______________________________________________ > nexa mailing list > nexa@server-nexa.polito.it > https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa >
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