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So much work, energy, and time has gone into creating a trustless distributed consensus mechanism, but virtually all clients that wish to access it do so by simply trusting the outputs from these two companies without any further verification. It also doesn’t seem like the best privacy situation. Imagine if every time you interacted with a website in Chrome, your request first went to Google before being routed to the destination and back. That’s the situation with ethereum today.
My First Impressions of Web3
moxie.org
Using our calculations, a typical data-driven business such as insurance, retail or banking, with 100 employees, might generate 2,983 gigabytes of dark data a day. If they were to keep that data for a year, that data would have a similar carbon footprint to flying six times from London to New York. Currently, companies produce 1,300,000,000 gigabytes of dark data a day – that’s 3,023,255 flights from London to New York.
'Dark Data' Is Killing the Planet – We Need Digital Decarbonisation
Carbon emissions
Cars have made deer North America’s most dangerous wild animal, implicated in three times more deaths than wasps and bees, forty times more than snakes, and four hundred times more than sharks.
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