Bitcoin* has a real potential to change the world.
Yeah, to make it shitty, with the pollution from the miners.
PoW is failed. It has led to centralization of the power where the electricity is cheapest, and to chip manufacturers.
I love aspects of bitcoin, but my heart knows i don't want to be burning 64 Exaflops for a fancy POW that does not serve any real life purpose.... it got to evolve better...... for sake of life, for sake of our forests and for the sake of our children.. we shoudl not be burning forests this way on a "unit of value exchange":
" Today the aggregate bitcoin FLOPS measurement stands at 64 exaFLOPS (64,000 petaFLOPS). To contrast that number, this month the top 500 supercomputers combined clocked in at 0.250 exaFLOPS (250 petaFLOPS)."there got to be a better way... . Ripple is not bitcoin replacement, i never understand why they fight and run misinformation campaigns on ripple .. but anyways ...
The thing is Ethereum is.. instead of burning for a fancy mathematical challenge it at-least executes valid contract code.
I wish this evolves and something better comes that achieves same integrity by using mathematics or knowledge .. instead of crude burning of cpu cycles...