[scikit-learn] Crypto project to fund open source

[Guillaume Lemaître]

On Mon, 8 Feb 2021 at 10:20, Adrin <adrin.jalali at gmail.com> wrote:

> I had a chat with Guillaume and he raised the concern of energy
> consumption on blockchain platforms.
>
> I had a little look, and realized this platform runs on Etherium, which
> has a significantly lower energy footprint
> than bitcoin, but still a rather high footprint. You can see the
> consumption charts through years here:
> https://digiconomist.net/ethereum-energy-consumption
>
> According the above link, energy per transaction on etherium is ~40kWh,
> which is about 6EUR/transaction
> on my electricity bill, and to be that's way too high of a price and
> electricity consumption.
>

Or on another scale, myself riding a bike during 200 hours :)


>
> I think then my vote would be a no wrt. this platform.
>
> Cheers,
> Adrin
>
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 6:13 PM Adrin <adrin.jalali at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I just got this on the pandas-dev mailing list. Seems rather interesting!
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>> From: Marc Garcia <garcia.marc at gmail.com>
>> Date: Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 2:21 PM
>> Subject: [Pandas-dev] Crypto project to fund open source
>> To: pandas-dev <pandas-dev at python.org>
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been contacting regarding a crypto project that aims at funding open
>> source projects. Not sure about the details, but seems like if we register
>> pandas, we'll be getting funds as the crypto is mined (after users endorse
>> pandas I think).
>>
>> Not so familiar myself with crypto or the project, but just in case
>> anyone finds it interesting and wants to add pandas to it:
>> https://devprotocol.xyz/
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Marc
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Guillaume Lemaitre
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