Peter Singer and SBF Discuss Cryptos Environmental Impact, Russia-Ukraine, Helping the Unbanked - BitcoinEthereumNews.com
การเข้ารหัสลับPeter Singer และ SBF หารือเกี่ยวกับผลกระทบต่อสิ่งแวดล้อมของ Crypto รัสเซีย-ยูเครน ช่วยเหลือผู้ที่ไม่ได้รับเงิน03 / 12 / 2022ข่าว Bitcoin Ethereum In a one-on-one discussion during this years Camp Ethereal, สนับสนุนโดย ถอดรหัส, the renowned philosopher Peter Singer spoke with FTX founder and CEO Sam Bankman-Fried on a collection of topics that ranged from the Russia-Ukraine conflict to how crypto affects the environment. ในฐานะที่เป็น ethicist, Singer was keen to pick Bankman-Fried‘s brain about the moral role of crypto in today’s world. He began by raising concern over the industrys energy consumption. Bankman-Fried responded by saying that lowering cryptos carbon footprint is something that “needs to be taken on,” and that current proof-of-work blockchains like Bitcoin and Ethereum were a “non-starter long term” because of high energy costs, which in turn lead to high transaction fees. He also told Singer that alternative proof-of-stake protocols have “effectively zero environmental impact.” We sort of have to end up living in a world where most of that scaling is happening through proof-of-stake systems,“ Bankman-Fried continued, adding: ”I think one of the most fortunate things is that that‘s going to have to happen anyway. For economic reasons, there’s a lot of economic pressure to fix this. Singer, a professor at Princeton who‘s written and spoken extensively about altruism, also