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  • The decision was influenced by broader industry trends and the publisher’s focus on working with advertisers and leveraging its brand equity in other ventures.
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    4 months ago

    Ah, so the people creating essentially get paid half for the same amount of work. That’s WAY better lol. Yeah, I’m not super into knowing so much about faux currency. I tend to deal with the real kind. So please pardon my mistake 🙏

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        4 months ago

        Oh, are you talking about the insanely high non-renewable energy used to mine coin and distribute, which is way beyond even AI?

        Because I think it’s pretty evident that the coin halving heavily impacts our environment as it now takes twice as much energy to create the same value.

        Actually giving a shit about the Earth 101 for ya.