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  • The decision was influenced by broader industry trends and the publisher’s focus on working with advertisers and leveraging its brand equity in other ventures.
  • Time aims to achieve profitability by expanding its direct advertising and sponsorship business, growing its global events slate, and exploring new ventures like connected television.
  • stonerboner@lemmynsfw.com
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    4 days ago

    Oh, are you talking about the insanely high non-renewable energy used to mine coin and distribute, which is way beyond even AI?

    Because I think it’s pretty evident that the coin halving heavily impacts our environment as it now takes twice as much energy to create the same value.

    Actually giving a shit about the Earth 101 for ya.