• jsomae@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    What about Ethereum? I always thought Bitcoin was something to avoid since it’s proof-of-work.

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      2 days ago

      Monero should be used. It’s the only really private/secure coin, although I think it’s proof of work too.

      • I’m really hoping we figure out an alternative to monero that is less energy intensive though. It’s bonkers inefficient compared to other coin to mine, super anonymous though, so trade offs

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      2 days ago

      yeah, to me bitcoin is rather a interesting pioneeing project which now is obsolete. there are a ton of decentralized DLTs that re not bitcoin and not even a blockchain in some cases (like Holochain for example)

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      Etherium, Solana…etc are the next level of more risky networks. They have distributed upgrade/change protocols as well but are not as decentralized as bitcoin. As for how efficient a coin is, I am not comparing that metric as efficiently does not correlate to risk. This post was just referring to risk.