Per esempio le blockchain che funzionano con il sistema Delegated Proof of Stake (DPoS) non sprecano lavoro ed energia come quelle Proof of Work. Queste ultime effettivamente sono incompatibili con il pensiero green.
El lun., 3 de ene. de 2022 19:14, Claudio Agosti < claudio.ago...@logioshermes.org> escribió: > 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 >> > _______________________________________________ > nexa mailing list > nexa@server-nexa.polito.it > https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa >
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