> we should measure them in terms of tons of CO2, or perhaps its equivalent acres-of-the-Amazon-rainforest-lit-on-fire.
The marginal cost of a transaction is zero.
For example, if half the block was used, and half was completely empty, it would cost nothing extra to the environment to fill the empty half with random noise, NFTs, or Cryptokitty spam. Maybe long-term the storage, but nothing extra to mine that block like you're saying.
The marginal cost of a transaction is zero.
For example, if half the block was used, and half was completely empty, it would cost nothing extra to the environment to fill the empty half with random noise, NFTs, or Cryptokitty spam. Maybe long-term the storage, but nothing extra to mine that block like you're saying.