Quote from: BlackHatCoiner on September 27, 2022, 04:00:16 PM

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Televisions, airplanes, Christmas lights, and plastic all require enormous amounts of energy to be produced and used; what is the amount of energy considered excessive to produce them? Why is this calculation done for Bitcoin and not for other goods?

In your opinion, what should I replace this particular bullet point with?

I feel as though the others can be kept to provide a comparison point as long as I manage to demonstrate that Bitcoin is an essential benefit to the world, as you said.

Quote from: BlackHatCoiner on September 27, 2022, 04:00:16 PM

Switching to Proof-of-Stake is seen as an environmentally friendly alternative with no trade-offs.

Quote from: BlackHatCoiner on September 27, 2022, 04:00:16 PM

On your second paragraph, you explain the drawbacks of Proof-of-Stake, but I think it deserves another title than this:

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Myth: Proof of Work is more wasteful than Proof of Stake

Proof-of-Work isn't more wasteful than Proof-of-Stake, because both are wasteful of the same magnitude: Zero. If the energy that is used, is used to secure the network it isn't wasted. I'd prefer having this title:

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Myth: Proof-of-Stake comes with no drawbacks

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Myth: Proof-of-Stake can replace Proof-of-Work with no tradeoffs

How about I add a second sentence to the myth so that it becomes: "Proof of Work is a waste of energy, but Proof of Stake is environmentally friendly with no drawbacks"?

Quote from: BlackHatCoiner on September 27, 2022, 04:00:16 PM

Fourthly, on your fourth paragraph, I'd add that Proof-of-Staked Bitcoin has already been implemented, and failed miserably: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoinpos/. I'm telling you this, because you're saying that a change has to be good, and been demonstrated in real-world conditions.

Will do.

Quote from: BlackHatCoiner on September 27, 2022, 04:00:16 PM

Also, I'd absolutely remove this:

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Such an agreement has not been reached for the use of Proof of Stake in Bitcoin. In fact, a majority of users are opposed to this change because Proof of Stake has not been trialed thoroughly.

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Such an agreement has not been reached for the use of Proof of Stake in Bitcoin. In fact, a majority of users are opposed to this change because Proof of Stake is not approved by the Bitcoin community due to the drawbacks that are explained above.

Not being trialed is a weak argument (it's not even a valid argument, it's been trialed to thousands of altcoins, Bitcoin-fork included). We've already debunked Proof-of-Stake from the core. Why not using this instead to convince it's a fundamentally flawed mechanism?

Will do as well.

Quote from: BlackHatCoiner on September 27, 2022, 04:00:16 PM

The text from cleanupbitcoin should be a meat and drink for us. Here's some easy to counter-argue parts:

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Bitcoin uses an outdated technology called proof-of-work to validate transactions.

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As Bitcoin's price surges, so, too does its energy use.

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We know Bitcoin stakeholders are incentivized not to change.

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We know crypto doesn’t need much energy to work.

That will provide some more myths to bust although I'll have to figure out how to refute all of them without turning the website into a long essay.