A few days ago I posted about how Mozilla accepting cryptocurrency had created a stir, Mozilla has listened to people’s responses and is halting cryptocurrency donations until they review the current state of crypto to see if it is in line with their stance on the climate. They have said they will have an open and transparent process involving this.

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  • drone621@lemmy.ml
    6·
    3 years ago

    Ugh. I understand the problems with crypto, but I wish they’d just take the money.

    • Ephera@lemmy.ml
      3·
      3 years ago

      Yeah, I doubt most of the people who complained about them accepting cryptocurrency will be donating in a traditional sense now.

      And, like, there’s definitely worse decisions to be backpedaling on, but I definitely don’t want them backpedaling on more decisions in the future, just because there’s a shitstorm. Because there’s pretty much always a shitstorm whenever Mozilla does anything.

    • ganymede@lemmy.ml
      11·
      3 years ago

      yeah plus those coins were already mined. not using them now after the carbons already been spent is even more of a FU to the planet

      edit: though i have overlooked the cost of consensus - which prior transactions do contribute to

        • ganymede@lemmy.ml
          0·
          3 years ago

          not quite sure what you mean? the carbon footprint of a transaction is negligible in comparison to mining no?

          • thoughtcrime@lemmy.ml
            3·
            3 years ago

            Mining is the process of creating new coins, but these new coins are created when you add a transaction to the public ledger. You cannot dissociate mining from transactions, mining is in fact how the networks’s keepers are paid for maintaining the network and processing transactions. It is this way because it was supposed that BitCoin transactions would be free, but now you are almost always required to pay a fee to get miners interested in adding you to the block

            • ganymede@lemmy.ml
              1·
              3 years ago

              do you actually need to form a new block to computationally verify a transaction?

              i thought reaching consensus is the most expensive/wasteful part, rather than the actual computational operations required to verify any given transaction?

              yes that transaction will contribute a minute fraction of a percentage to the carbon cost of the next (and arguably subsequent) block(s). but in that sense, and considering the increased per-block carbon footprint of mining each new block, is it really the case that eg. a “worthy” transaction which makes use of previously spent carbon isn’t at least making something of worth happen as a result of that carbon which has already been spent?

              or is it really the case that the substantial carbon cost which has already been poured into eg. btc can never do ANY good at all? if so what would be an advised recovery plan to make sure the previously spent carbon doesn’t go to waste? basically develop a truly green currency and transfer the ‘worth’ of BTC to it at 1:1? or any other ways to do it? i’m just thinking out loud here…