Today there are 10 blockchains storing more than $10 billion in assets, as well as several ecosystems with meaningful development and activity.
THORChain is vying to sit at the center of this world as infrastructure for cross-chain finance.
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For nearly a decade people have speculated about the potential for decentralized exchange between blockchains with some conceptualizing it as the “holy grail”.
Today it’s still largely an unsolved problem at scale.
THORChain is an attempt at fulfilling this vision.
It is a cross-chain liquidity protocol built using the Cosmos SDK that aims to provide a variety of cross-chain financial services including exchange, lending and borrowing, and synthetic assets.
While many people cite that 76% of Bitcoin miners use renewable energy, that’s not entirely correct.
Yes 76% of miners use renewables as part of their energy mix, but only 39% of mining comes from renewable sources.
In any case however this criticism still misses the point.
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This criticism is often birthed from the belief that what Bitcoin mining goes towards isn’t valuable.
“If Bitcoin is a useless technology, then why are we burning all this energy?”
There’s two pushbacks I have here.
1. What is the value of a fixed supply digital commodity money that cannot be seized, censored, or corrupted and can be trivially verified and transferred around the world in seconds?
What if everyone in the world had access to this asset?