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[–] glibg10b@lemmy.ml 52 points 3 days ago (23 children)

What's worse is that there are modern alternatives that can process hundreds of transactions per second without any mining at all

But Bitcoin people don't care about that because they don't use Bitcoin for actual payments, they use the price to pump their bags

[–] yogurtwrong@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (4 children)

What is the modern alternative for decentralized, eco friendly money?

I know monero is praised a lot by the people of penguin but that one also requires mining.

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