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View submission: Introducing Collectible Avatars
Are you forgetting that the planet has to use a metric fuckton of electricity to maintain anything on the blockchain? Reddit could have easily adopted a simpler database structure with premium avatars with virtually zero environmental impact, but they instead went down the blockchain path harming the entire planet in the process.
Comment by marcusaurelius_phd at 08/07/2022 at 07:56 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Or they could have planted tulips. Old school NFT, but with less carbon footprint.
Comment by Hidalgo758 at 07/07/2022 at 17:44 UTC
-35 upvotes, 2 direct replies
Lol at the alarmist "muh planet is getting destroyed by crypto" bullshit
Holy shit, who cares
We waste so much of our resources on so many stupid shit like sports, video games, porn, reddit 🤣🤣🤣
Comment by Agusx1211 at 12/07/2022 at 14:34 UTC
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They are minted on polygon, it's a PoS chain that doesn't use much more energy than a regular database. It has virtually zero environmental impact.