Over 2 percent of the US’s electricity generation now goes to bitcoin - eviltoast
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    10 months ago

    I didn’t know that. What is the protocol? I know last bull run they dumped huge amounts of ether on the market at the two peaks

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      10 months ago

      Somebody more knowledgeable than me about Eth can detail that, it’s gotten a lot more complicated in the past few years. But suffice to say a clear economic policy does exist, but it burns coins and/or mints them according to several changing variables within the eth ecosystem, for example, gas fees. But the rules are all out there, written in protocol, for anybody to follow and build around, otherwise the whole system would fail to even operate as a blockchain.

      I was just answering your post to basically that Vitalik or whoever doesn’t just have a money printer they can unilaterally turn on.