Austin Federa
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You are now entering the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Lucet Ice Fjord. Ice Forge?
You are now entering the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Lucet Ice Fjord. Ice Forge?
Really? Yeah. I mean, and I think in general, a lot of our Web2 services and Web3 services are not thinking about this in the right way. I'm kind of ascribed to the philosophy of like the work I'm doing now has the potential to help. It's not helping now. Like I'm not delusional about that.
Really? Yeah. I mean, and I think in general, a lot of our Web2 services and Web3 services are not thinking about this in the right way. I'm kind of ascribed to the philosophy of like the work I'm doing now has the potential to help. It's not helping now. Like I'm not delusional about that.
Reducing emissions in like different kinds of blockchains is important, but it's still not actually like making progress. It's reducing harm.
Reducing emissions in like different kinds of blockchains is important, but it's still not actually like making progress. It's reducing harm.
One Solana transaction uses about as much energy as two to three Google searches. And a Google search is like something no one thinks about as being detrimental to the environment. It is a little detrimental to the environment. It is running in data centers that do take electricity, that do take this whole massive internet infrastructure to run.
One Solana transaction uses about as much energy as two to three Google searches. And a Google search is like something no one thinks about as being detrimental to the environment. It is a little detrimental to the environment. It is running in data centers that do take electricity, that do take this whole massive internet infrastructure to run.
Unless you're willing to live a very specific kind of life, it's going to have a sizable detrimental environmental impact until we like get shit under control.
Unless you're willing to live a very specific kind of life, it's going to have a sizable detrimental environmental impact until we like get shit under control.
And then you just come over a hill and there's a... A mountain of ice.
And then you just come over a hill and there's a... A mountain of ice.
The first day in Congo or Lusak, the whole group, 22 of us, clambers onto a big bus. We start the long drive to the ice sheet.
The first day in Congo or Lusak, the whole group, 22 of us, clambers onto a big bus. We start the long drive to the ice sheet.
You are now entering the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Lucet Ice Fjord. Ice Forge?
Really? Yeah. I mean, and I think in general, a lot of our Web2 services and Web3 services are not thinking about this in the right way. I'm kind of ascribed to the philosophy of like the work I'm doing now has the potential to help. It's not helping now. Like I'm not delusional about that.
Reducing emissions in like different kinds of blockchains is important, but it's still not actually like making progress. It's reducing harm.
One Solana transaction uses about as much energy as two to three Google searches. And a Google search is like something no one thinks about as being detrimental to the environment. It is a little detrimental to the environment. It is running in data centers that do take electricity, that do take this whole massive internet infrastructure to run.
Unless you're willing to live a very specific kind of life, it's going to have a sizable detrimental environmental impact until we like get shit under control.
And then you just come over a hill and there's a... A mountain of ice.
The first day in Congo or Lusak, the whole group, 22 of us, clambers onto a big bus. We start the long drive to the ice sheet.