- From: <alexandre.monnin@web-and-philosophy.org>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 09:06:01 +0100
- To: "public-philoweb@w3.org" <public-philoweb@w3.org>
Le Tue, 26 Jan 2016 10:06:19 +0100, Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net> a écrit: > >> On 26 Jan 2016, at 01:00, Jack Jamieson >> <jack.jamieson@mail.utoronto.ca> wrote: >> >> >> At any rate, I'm very pleased to see the creation of this group. One of >> my interests is material impacts of the web – a set of technologies >> that is so often presented as immaterial (e.g. in popular conceptions >> of "the cloud”) – and ecological impacts are a big part of this. > > I'd be interested to know how much the electricity consumption would be > if the BlockChain grew as much as the current > proponents indicate and if they did not change their proof of work > algorithm. > > Clearly there are other algorithms in the pipeline as pointed out by > this article > https://tonyarcieri.com/the-death-of-bitcoin > <https://tonyarcieri.com/the-death-of-bitcoin> > > But an argument from energy, can indeed be an argument against a certain > type of algorithm. Or some languages or bad practices for instance. Another team at Inria has been looking at CSS and more specifically at the differences induced on energy consumption by badly written code. It seems that these are quite sizable... A. > Henry
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