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Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects
cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1281550/codeberg-bans-cryptocurrency-projects
codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/pulls/1254
Codeberg.orgProposal for Assembly 2026: Disallow cryptocurrency projectsContext:
- https://forum.codeberg.org/d/82-taking-a-stance-against-cryptocurrency
- https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/Community/issues/794
- https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/Community/issues/2184
Replying to @beep@piefed.world
Ugh. Yes, cryptocurrencies are full of scams, and yes, memecoins as dumb as hell, but that doesn’t make the entire space worth banning. They don’t ban BitTorrent implementations because 99.9%[^1] of the traffic is copyright infringement.
Ethereum, for example and chosen only because I’m most familiar with it, doesn’t burn electricity any more, is about empowering users, and has real use cases.
There are plenty of serious developers building useful technology in the space. Cryptocurrencies are censorship-resistant, and bad actors will inevitably use them, but that’s true of any open technology.
Ban projects that are themselves scams or fraudulent, but it’s unreasonable to reject an entire class of technology because those projects exist.
[^1]: unsubstantiated hyperbole.
ethereum.orgThe Merge | ethereum.orgLearn about The Merge - when Mainnet Ethereum adopted proof-of-stake.Replying to @cadekat@pawb.social
The 870 tonnes of CO2 the E network now produces for yearly operation is equivalent to eating 290000 cheeseburgers, as much as the world eats burgers in one day and one hour.
Replying to @nitroemdash@lemmy.wtf
It’s equal to the calories contained in that many cheeseburgers or expended while eating? Or in making that many cheeseburgers? And are we talking like Big Macs or Whoppers?
I was curious, and redid the math using cars (a unit I can understand). Works out to about 370 cars. That’s equivalent to like… 0.0006 cars per user.
Sources:
epa.gov/…/greenhouse-gas-emissions-typical-passen…
10.1109/CICTN64563.2025.10932395
US EPAGreenhouse Gas Emissions from a Typical Passenger Vehicle | US EPAThis page answers questions about GHG emissions from passenger vehicles and how these emissions are measured and calculated.Replying to @cadekat@pawb.social
Production. Meat production (factory farming) is the largest CO2 source.