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Crypto tokens available to help save the Amazon (Original Post) JudyM Mar 2022 OP
Crypto processing requires a *lot* of energy. Why not just a credit card? Pobeka Mar 2022 #1
What would the credit card purchase? JudyM Mar 2022 #2
Your URL doesn't work - it just says, when I click it, "you are not the author of this post" progree Mar 2022 #3
Thanks, fixed it. JudyM Mar 2022 #4
YW ❤️ progree Mar 2022 #5

Pobeka

(4,999 posts)
1. Crypto processing requires a *lot* of energy. Why not just a credit card?
Sun Mar 27, 2022, 08:57 AM
Mar 2022

Seems counterproductive to use a monetary source that puts far more CO2 in the atmosphere than a reasonable alternative so we can save a portion of the amazon to capture CO2.

A good writeup here that discusses many of the energy demands for crypto:

https://www.asktraders.com/learn-to-trade/crypto-trading/bitcoin-energy-use/

JudyM

(29,517 posts)
2. What would the credit card purchase?
Sun Mar 27, 2022, 09:52 AM
Mar 2022

This is giving some value, at least theoretically, to the purchaser. The concept of gaining some type of quasi-property right makes this unique.

progree

(11,463 posts)
3. Your URL doesn't work - it just says, when I click it, "you are not the author of this post"
Sun Mar 27, 2022, 10:49 AM
Mar 2022

and shows nothing more.

Did you mean to use this URL?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216528151

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