They claimed that it was a more eco friendly coin, as it didn’t use GPU (and thereby not much electricity) but instead it caused harddrive prices to jump, due to excessive wear on drives. May for saving electricity, and instead causing a fuckton of e-waste, I guess.
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I specifically referred to Chiacoin, as the topic was harddrives, not blockchain as a whole.
Ahh, I somehow missed that, my bad. I’d never even heard of that one holy shit
They claimed that it was a more eco friendly coin, as it didn’t use GPU (and thereby not much electricity) but instead it caused harddrive prices to jump, due to excessive wear on drives. May for saving electricity, and instead causing a fuckton of e-waste, I guess.