Freshwater. And it’s total BS fud. Water is typically reused in a cooling systems, not thrown out. Also evaporated water eventually condenses back down in the form of rain water.……
FUDstrs are saying 1 Bitcoin transaction uses a swimming pool worth of water. So let’s do the math on that.
There’s 326 million trillion gallons of water on earth, and the average swimming pool is full with about 20,000 gallons of water:
326 million trillion gallons of……
If you happen to be in northern NJ or NYC metro area come on out to the next meet up on December 14th. Last meeting we all went to @PUBKEY after and it’s a greet group.
JerseyCityBitcoin.com……
Depending on your network bandwidth, storage and RAM can affect how fast you can download it. Mine took about 2 days on my newest node running on SFF Dell optiplex. It’s a pretty data set to download every transaction that’s ever happened……
Absolutely no disrespect to our military/veterans who put their lives on the line to get us this far. Just an observation that we aren’t as free as we claim to be……
SHA 256 POW can be upgraded to a different POW to be quantum proof. There have been many times in BTCs history where such quick changes had to be made so I’m not worried . The great thing about Bitcoin is that it can be upgraded to avoid failure……