Setting aside that your link isn’t actually capable of estimating the usage to maintain ETH without accessing all of its users power consumption that’s a lot of power for something with no real use case beyond crime that currencies do not do better.
The main use case for cryptocurrency ought to be as a method of payment that relies on trusting no third party. Think Venmo or PayPal or Google Pay, without having to trust Venmo or PayPal or Google. You might not value not having to trust any 3rd party, but maybe you should.
But this is why I say the worst thing that ever happened to crypto was for its price to skyrocket. Because now nobody cares about trustless transactions, they just care about Number Go Up.
Setting aside that your link isn’t actually capable of estimating the usage to maintain ETH without accessing all of its users power consumption that’s a lot of power for something with no real use case beyond crime that currencies do not do better.
The main use case for cryptocurrency ought to be as a method of payment that relies on trusting no third party. Think Venmo or PayPal or Google Pay, without having to trust Venmo or PayPal or Google. You might not value not having to trust any 3rd party, but maybe you should.
But this is why I say the worst thing that ever happened to crypto was for its price to skyrocket. Because now nobody cares about trustless transactions, they just care about Number Go Up.
Crypto primarily being speculative is a big problem.