• yogurtwrong@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    What is the modern alternative for decentralized, eco friendly money?

    I know monero is praised a lot by the people of penguin but that one also requires mining.

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      34 minutes ago

      Nano has one of the lightest nodes, making it quite eco friendly. And Atto’s node can run on a 1 GB VPS (the minimum requirements are here)

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      1 day ago

      It is praised for its anonymity, and it uses an algorithm that purposefully works worse on GPUs and probably ASICS, but don’t quote me on that.

      A lot of malware bundles miners for it because of it.