Explore Environmental and Structural Hazards
Cryptocurrencies have challenges from within about how they operate, scale, and resist attack. They also have external costs and threats that are incidental to the value created, but have a cost to individuals, companies, societies, and the future of humanity.
If you are someone considering or participating in cryptocurrency, I would try to convince you that there’s an ethical and societal duty to consider the first of these, which is resource consumption, led largely by running through huge amounts of electricity to no good purpose.
The second category encompasses a broader variety of threats to the value and viability of cryptocurrency, and you should understand as part of the risk you assume if ...
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