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Cake day: June 7th, 2024

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  • Blockchain is perfectly fine. Its specifically certain crypto thats the issue as they use up to much energy for what they do. So for example bitcoin uses the energy intensive proof of work but then also artifically inflates its value such that it will always take more energy to make one as time goes by. So the amount of bit coins you could mine per barrel of oil was way less in 2010 in comparison to now and not just as a function of inflation. Regardless of that the proof of work is to energy intensive. Grid coing uses proof of stake and the computation is used to do useful work. So like im fine with that. blockchain is ultimately a distributed ledger which is fine but bitcoin was a poc of a possible use and unfortunately the creator did not realize the issues it would have energy wise if it was actually used as a form of currency. Bitcoin makes the k-cup guy look like the patron saint of environmental responsibility.


  • Well and when you age you can’t help but lean on your children who just can’t handle the load. its just not an option without kids which is good. I would rather take the suffering than feel I am dropping it on my kids. How aweful it would be to see their suffering, almost worse is they were the best of us and did so well but could achieve so little due to circumstances. If I had kids I certainly would not have been able to help them pay for college. I mean my parents could not but my college loans were like a very nice car loan not like today where its a mortgage.