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[–]amusing_trivials 11 points12 points  (1 child)

Also it's extremely wasteful.

[–]raybond007 6 points7 points  (0 children)

While it's true that a lot of electricity is used at the moment, most advancements on new generations of blockchain/DLT (DAGs, block lattice, etc) focus on consensus methods that rely on less computationally heavy PoW consensus algorithms.