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Memo Akten

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Memo Akten's personal blog at memoakten.medium.com covers science and culture. Since 2021, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “The Unreasonable Ecological Cost of CryptoArt”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.

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Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN commenters link this Medium blog's post on the ecological costs of crypto and NFTs, citing its energy figures and sources for NFT minting and sales. It is used as a reference in threads on NFTs and Ethereum.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. The Unreasonable Ecological Cost of CryptoArt
    8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2021-01-20

What Hacker News says?

  1. With the NFT minting, several bids, sale, and transfer of ownership, it's an average of 340 kWh for a successful NFT, according to https://memoakten.medium.com/the-unreasonable-ecological-cos... which has sources and methodology etc. That seems pretty high even for a fundraising dinner, and at least that includes food.

    Comment linking /the-unreasonable-ecological-cost-of-cryptoart-2221d3eb2053

    on “An NFT That Saves Lives”
  2. Submitted The Unreasonable Ecological Cost of CryptoArt as a story · 77 points

    HN discussion
  3. No strictly related to Bitcoin, but to the cryptoworld in general: https://memoakten.medium.com/the-unreasonable-ecological-cos...

    Comment linking /the-unreasonable-ecological-cost-of-cryptoart-2221d3eb2053

    on “Bitcoin Core Lead Maintainer Steps Back, Encourages Decentralization”
  4. Submitted The Unreasonable Ecological Cost of CryptoArt as a story · 15 points

    HN discussion
  5. Are ecological costs involved with doing these sales solved with Eth 2.0? https://memoakten.medium.com/the-unreasonable-ecological-cos...

    Comment linking /the-unreasonable-ecological-cost-of-cryptoart-2221d3eb2053

    on “Show HN: EthBlock.art, paint Ethereum, mint NFTs, earn as a creative coder”
  6. Submitted The unreasonable ecological cost of cryptoart as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted The Unreasonable Ecological Cost of CryptoArt as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted The Unreasonable Ecological Cost of CryptoArt (Part 1) (2020) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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