The Congo Tribunal
En plus de 20 ans, la #guerre du #Congo a déjà fait plus de 6 millions de victimes. La population souffre de cet état d’#impunité totale, les #crimes_de_guerre n’ayant jamais fait l’objet de poursuites judiciaires. Cette région recèle les gisements les plus importants de #matières_premières nécessitées par les technologies de pointe. Dans son « #Tribunal_sur_le_Congo », Milo Rau parvient à réunir les victimes, les bourreaux, les témoins et les experts de cette guerre et à instituer un #tribunal d’exception du peuple du Congo de l’Est. Un portrait bouleversant de la guerre économique la plus vaste et la plus sanglante de l’histoire humaine.
▻https://www.film-documentaire.fr/4DACTION/w_fiche_film/53668_0
#film #documentaire #film_documentaire #extractivisme #tribunal_des_peuples #justice_transformatrice #justice #vérité_et_justice #multinationales #responsabilité #Banro #RDC #massacres #témoignage #Twangiza #massacre_de_Mutarule #mine #extractivisme #Sud-Kivu #or #Banro_Corporation #impunité #crimes #douleur #tribunal #engagement #viols #vérité_et_justice #multinationales #guerre #concessions_minières #ressources_naturelles #pillage #minerai #Mining_and_Processing_Congo (#MPC) #Walikale #Bisie #droits_humains #MCP_Alptamin #Mukungwe #milices #Cheka_Group #groupes_armés #diamants #cassiterite #marché_noir #loi_Dodd_Frank #minerai_critique #Mutarule #MONUSCO #ONU #Nations_Unies
]]>« Dans la nuit du 12 janvier 2023, nous nous sommes mis en route en solidarité avec nos ami.e.s de la Zad de Lützerath, afin de saboter la ligne ferroviaire de charbon dans la forêt de la ville de Cologne.
Avec deux engins incendiaires placés de manière stratégique, nous espérons avoir stoppé pour un petit moment la livraison de charbon.
RWE ne mérite rien d’autre que notre haine la plus profonde !
Même si les flics occupent toute la Rhénanie, ils ne peuvent pas nous surveiller partout.
La nuit nous appartient !
Notre action s’inscrit dans une campagne radicale pour le maintien de la zone autonome et contre la destruction du climat à l’échelle mondiale.
La production d’énergie fossile et l’exploitation de la planète qui en découle doivent être stoppées par tous les moyens.
Nous saluons tous ceux qui, en Allemagne et dans le monde, s’opposent à la destruction du climat et à l’oppression.
Liberté pour toutes et tous !
Pour un mouvement climatique radical ! »
]]>Prof. Michael Tanchum @michaeltanchumsur Twitter - On copper use
▻https://twitter.com/michaeltanchum/status/1552772972561178630
Over the next 12 years, the world will need as much #copper as it consumed over the past 120 years
➡️An #EV requires 2.5x copper as an ICE vehicle
➡️#Solar requires 2x copper per MW as #natgas
➡️Offshore #windpower requires 5x per MW
]]>Deep-Sea Mining and the Race to the Bottom of the Ocean | Wil S. Hylton
▻https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/01/20000-feet-under-the-sea/603040
These things are already happening. We’re about to make one of the biggest transformations that humans have ever made to the surface of the planet. We’re going to strip-mine a massive habitat, and once it’s gone, it isn’t coming back. Source: The Atlantic
]]>Top green #mining projects
▻https://hackernoon.com/top-green-mining-projects-a3127a88f8b1?source=rss----3a8144eabfe3---4
Top Green Mining Crypto ProjectsThe advantage of bubbles, when they pop, is that they make it possible to do a big spring cleaning. And, on the side of the mining services provider, we can say that the purge was severe.Why that?Let’s go back a few months ago…- The sector has been the target of many scams (it has been highly targeted, as have been the exchange and #blockchain projects). - The price of cryptocurrencies has fallen sharply, making unprofitable most of the mines that had been built in a hurry, with machines that are not very efficient and use a huge amount of energy.- Mining has been criticized in all major media for its impact on the climate, has been hijacked by Javascript hacks on contaminated sites to unknowingly mine using the computers of the Internet users.- Etc.In (...)
]]>WTF is Cuckoo Cycle PoW algorithm that attract projects like Cortex and Grin?
▻https://hackernoon.com/wtf-is-cuckoo-cycle-pow-algorithm-that-attract-projects-like-cortex-and-
WTF is Cuckoo Cycle PoW algorithm that attract projects like Grin and Cortex?In 2017, the #cryptocurrency rage reached to the highest point when Bitcoin surged to USD19,783, many speculators and miners started to invest an enormous amount of money into #mining hardware and chips hoping to get on the craze. Cryptocurrency mining was originally designed to be doable with general-purpose computers. Yet with the increase in competition to the limited resources, miners have been seeking an effective way to improve their chances.Application-specific integrated circuit chips, known as ASIC, has taken over the mining market since. ASIC are chips that are designed with a singular purpose. For cryptocurrency mining, these chips are built into specifically designed motherboards and power supplies to (...)
]]>Pressure Mounts for #ethereum Developers as ASIC Miners Eagerly Await Next Week’s Hardfork
▻https://hackernoon.com/pressure-mounts-for-ethereum-developers-as-asic-miners-eagerly-await-nex
Pressure Mounts for Ethereum Developers as ASIC Miners Begin Dominating HashratesEthereum’s hardfork scheduled for later this month will likely have some irreversible ramifications. Ethereum #mining will never be the same again — and its not because of the fallen profit margins, nor is it because of some silly dispute to create Ethereum Cash. This is a planned event supported by almost the entire Ethereum community — minus the miners. We all knew that mining Ethereum would soon come to an end; it’s in Ethereum’s roadmap to switch to a Proof of Stake consensus. And although Ethereum will still be mineable until that fateful day in which PoS comes, some decisions made for this hardfork will have dire consequences for Ethereum miners.Ethereum’s Significance in the GPU Mining IndustryEthereum was (...)
]]>51% Attacks for Rent — The Consequence of a Liquid #mining Market
▻https://hackernoon.com/51-attacks-for-rent-the-consequence-of-a-liquid-mining-market-c37d9ca840
51% Attacks for Rent — The Consequence of a Liquid Mining MarketIn order to remain decentralized, cryptocurrencies using a proof of work system must not allow a single party to control the majority of total hashing power.But as the global pool of hashing power grows more liquid, cryptocurrencies need to pass another important test. They must be able to resist an attack from the total rentable global hashing power for their specific algorithm. Otherwise, arbitrageurs may find it financially attractive to rent hashing power in order to perform 51% attacks.There are a few things preventing this from happening:Algorithm-specific miners — Many rigs are optimized for a certain hashing algorithm, and switching to another, e.g. SHA-256 → X11, is unfeasible.Illiquid mining market — Most of the global (...)
]]>How Much Longer Can Our Grid Handle #bitcoin Miners Demands ?
▻https://hackernoon.com/how-much-longer-can-our-grid-handle-bitcoin-miners-demands-15b4bd60d9ba?
“Eden GeoPower” may have the answer.Image Credit phys.org2018 emerged as an emotional rollercoaster for the crypto market. With Bitcoin prices surging as high as $11,235 and bottoming out at around $3,691, it was a year to remember for investors and miners alike. What remained a constant was crypto’s relentless energy demands. In some cases, the Bitcoin network consumed nearly as much electricity as the nation of Ireland according to a study by Dutch researcher Alex de Vries. De Vries estimates that the Bitcoin network consumes “at least 2.55 gigawatts of electricity currently, and potentially 7.67 gigawatts in the future.” So the question remains, is there a renewable energy solution to offset these extensive costs in the future of crypto mining?A look into what causes Bitcoin #mining to (...)
]]>Summary of #bitmain #lawsuit
▻https://hackernoon.com/summary-of-bitmain-lawsuit-ed3a3412c965?source=rss----3a8144eabfe3---4
Gor Gevorkyan v. Bitmain, Inc., Bitmain Technologies, Ltd. And DOES 1 to 10A lawsuit was filed in the Northern District of California against Bitmain on 11/19/2018. See ▻https://www.scribd.com/document/393971649/Bitmain-Class-ActionIn a brief summary, the Plaintiff alleged that Bitmain marketed and sold ASIC miners that were preconfigured to use the customers’ electricity to generate crypto for Bitmain’s own benefit.The Plaintiff bought his ASIC in January 2018, it was hard to configure, and it came pre-configured to operate in full power mode, at which time it mined for the benefit of Bitmain, using the Plaintiff’s electricity. The complaint alleges there are over 100 Class members and the amount in controversy exceeds $5 Million.Plaintiff’s first count is that Bitmain used unfair (...)
]]>AI in Action : #mining & #energy
▻https://hackernoon.com/ai-in-action-mining-energy-940a42c5cb0a?source=rss----3a8144eabfe3---4
This is the fifth in a series of articles highlighting the many applications of Artificial Intelligence.The “extractive industries” as they’re sometimes called, Mining and Energy, were the first truly global vertical, and continue to span the globe in the pursuit of access to natural resources. AI can be of great service in innumerable ways in this field. Here’s a few examples:Risk ManagementI was talking to a pipeline company last year about risk management. At the time I was selling a tablet-based inspection system. “Data collection is not our problem” I was told. “we have lots of data automatically collected via SCADA — our need is to interpret this data effectively.” They had a great deal of data being collected along the hundreds of miles of pipeline, but were having trouble processing it (...)
]]>Very interesting talk I just watched on Air #Mozilla (or #airmo as ...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/6966848
Very interesting talk I just watched on Air #Mozilla (or #airmo as we like to call it):
#Computer #Security In The Past, Present and #Future, with Mikko Hypponen ▻https://air.mozilla.org/computer-security-in-the-past-present-and-future-with-mikko-hypponen
Definitely worth a look if things like #virus, #worm, #trojan, #ransomware, unsolicited #blockchain #mining (heck, he even talks about blockchain applications and security a bit) are anything that peek your interest!
]]>Reportage: Das passiert, wenn Bitcoin-Miner deine Stadt übernehmen...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/6897029
Reportage: Das passiert, wenn Bitcoin-Miner deine Stadt übernehmen
#bernehmen #bitcoin #das #deine #energie #kryptowahrungen #linkschleuder #miner #mining #passiert #reportage #smartcity #stadt #strom #wenn posted by pod_feeder
]]>Congolese block export of raw metals to #China - venture with Chinese firms told to process #copper and #cobalt
▻https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/companies/2017-10-10-congolese-block-export-of-raw-metals-to-china #Africa #minerals #mining #development #Congo
À l’heure des data center détenus par la NSA ou les GAFAM, bref de la (re)concentration informatique, de l’hyper-concentration, l’argument des #bitcoin et #blockchain comme « #pair_à_pair » ou outils de désintermédiation laisse rêveur. On peut déjà noter que le bitcoin est une régression puisqu’il cherche à contourner la gestion politique de la #monnaie (alors que cela a toujours été le cas et qu’on en est de plus en plus conscient) en revalorisant d’une manière (néo)classique, ou plutôt capitaliste, la « preuve de travail » jugée sur le temps-énergie (#Proof_of_work).
Ne faudrait-il pas plutôt parler de ré-intermédiation ? Une transformation du système d’intermédiaires, très certainement au bénéfice des propriétaires (de machines, d’énergie, de compétences logicielles, des terrains nécessaires à la production de machines mais aussi des capitaux nécessaires à enrôler-salarialiser les travailleurs indispensables).
#Bitcoin_Mining Farm Build Out in Iceland - Genesis #Mining
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A-mcSOGolM
Je me mets de coté toute une série de critiques qui pointent la consommation énergétique (la production d’ #énergie, encore une industrie connu pour son caractère #décentralisé et #désintermédié) et autres problèmes générés par ces technologies :
Consommation d’énergie (et de matière) :
▻http://seenthis.net/messages/131228
▻http://seenthis.net/messages/424376#message424451
▻http://seenthis.net/messages/355322#message355337
▻http://seenthis.net/messages/137297
►http://seenthis.net/messages/137297#message137543
éventuelles « solutions » à ce problème (ce sont plus des contournements) :
►http://seenthis.net/messages/280500
▻http://seenthis.net/messages/312332
Des critiques plus globales :
▻http://seenthis.net/messages/279395#message279408
▻http://seenthis.net/messages/135202
▻http://seenthis.net/messages/218268
▻http://seenthis.net/messages/468936
Pour se rendre compte de la désintermédiation et dé-concentration du Bitcoin ces vidéo sont sympas :
A LOOK INSIDE AMERICA’S LARGEST #BITCOIN_MINING_FARM
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ihMqEDs4B8
Life Inside a Secret Chinese #Bitcoin_Mine
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8kua5B5K3I
Et ces articles écrits à un moment où moins d’un millième des internautes utilisent le bitcoin ou une technologie similaire
▻http://www.e-ducat.fr/cop21-et-blockchain
Les participants à la Cop21 sont peut être majoritairement persuadés par le discours du lobby bancaire que le minage des bitcoins est un gaspillage énergétique.
Quand est il vraiment ?
La puissance de calcul totale du réseau est de 500 milliards de Mhash/sec (à la date d’aujourd’hui, 28 novembre 2015).
L’efficacité du matériel de minage peut être estimée autour de 2000 Mhash/J.
La #consommation_électrique totale du réseau bitcoin, disponible dans le monde entier, se situe donc autour de 250 MJ/sec = 250 MWatt, c’est à dire l’équivalent de 100 000 maisons aux Etats-Unis.
A titre de comparaison, il existe environ deux millions de distributeurs de billets de banque dans le monde, chacun consommant en moyenne 200 Watts, même si les modèles les plus récents affichent une consommation théorique de 70 Watts (source : diebold.com).
Au final, les seuls ATMs (sans compter les réseaux et data centers auxquels ils sont connectés) consomment donc 400 Mwatts.
Si l’ impression des billets de banque sur papier de haute qualité et leur transport en camions blindés sont pris en compte, l’adoption de masse de Bitcoin comme cash électronique permettrait de diviser l’empreinte carbone des systèmes de paiement par trois ou quatre.
Avec un coût moyen de l’ #électricité aux US de 10 cents par Kilowattheure en 2015, on obtient un coût de 25 000 US dollars pour 150 bitcoins générés par heure, soit un coût de “production” de 167 dollars par bitcoin (environ 157 €), environ la moitié du prix de marché des bitcoins à la même date. La différence correspond à la prime d’utilité, présente et future, attribuée aux bitcoins.
▻http://www.latribune.fr/technos-medias/20131203trib000799051/bitcoins-une-vraie-planche-a-bruler-de-l-electricite.html
L’économiste nord-américain Alex Tabarrok signale sur le site Marginal Revolution qu’avec la flambée du cours du bitcoin, ces opérations coûtent en conséquence de plus en plus cher. Il rappelle ainsi :
« En avril, quand les bitcoins s’échangeaient environ 100 dollars, la consommation d’électricité des ’mineurs’ de bitcoins atteignait le niveau stupéfiant de 1000 mégawatts/heure par jour, assez pour fournir de assez pour fournir de l’énergie à 31.000 foyers américains. »
Cela représentait également 150.000 dollars par jour, en prenant en compte le tarif moyen de 15 cents par #kilowatt-heure et sur la base de 650 watts consommés par opération de minage.
Huit mois plus tard, suivant ces estimations, ce coût a été multiplié par… 100 ! Au 3 décembre 2013, le coût en électricité estimé par la plateforme précédemment citée Blockchain pour le minage est en effet de 15,3 millions de dollars au cours des 24 heures précédentes. Un coût global supporté par chaque internaute qui participe aux opérations de minage. Entre temps, le cours du Bitcoin a lui aussi explosé, dépassant la barre des 1.000 dollars fin novembre.
#capitalisme #travail #preuve_de_travail #PoW #cryptocurrency
#namecoin #Ethereum #économie #p2p #Proof_of_stake
Don’t believe the #MEDIA hype about striking mine workers in #South_Africa
▻http://africasacountry.com/dont-believe-the-media-hype-about-striking-mine-workers-in-south-af
The #platinum strike led by new trade union Association of #mining and Construction Workers Union (AMCU), is now over four months long, making it the longest strike in the history of South Africa. The majority of the country’s English language newspapers depict the strike as a result of the greedy and unethical leadership of #AMCU […]
]]>The Ninja Miners of Mongolia | The Diplomat
▻http://thediplomat.com/2014/04/the-ninja-miners-of-mongolia/?img=8#postImage
The rugged landscape in #Zaamarr, 350 kilometers west of Ulan Bator in #Mongolia, is sown with so many holes that it may cave in at any moment. Here, in the shadows of the big #mining companies, thousands of “ninjas” labor relentlessly. The workers are named after the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles because of the green plastic pans they carry on their backs. Mining has become a growth business, with about 100,000 Mongolians joining the industry in the past five years. Many lost their jobs during the country’s transition from Communism and initially became traditional herders. But two devastating winters, known as dzuds, wiped out a third of Mongolia’s livestock in 2001 and 2002, and so thousands of families joined the #gold_rush, scouring sites rejected by large mining companies for quartz or crumbs of gold. Ninjas have the potential to earn between $5 and $10 a day, often more than teachers, doctors and government officials.
The work is harsh. “If it rains, you’re hungry. If it snows, you’re hungry. If you are sick, you’re hungry. And while you are hungry, you need money to eat. If you’re alive, you can work,” says one female miner.
]]>Did cutting access to mineral wealth reduce violence in the DRC ?
▻http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/03/25/did-cutting-access-to-mineral-wealth-reduce-violence-in-the-drc
The poor bosses
▻http://africasacountry.com/poor-bosses
Miners at multinational #Lonmin platinum mine at Marikana in Rustenburg, #South_Africa, speaking to (South African) Sunday Times reporter Lucky Biyase: ‘Whenever we ask for a wage increase, these companies plead poverty and threaten us with retrenchments. This is because they don’t want to pay money to black people. Why work when you don’t get [...]
]]>#bitcoin anyone ? - Roelof Roscam Abbing (nettime-l)
▻http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.internet.nettime/7367
We can see how the design of Bitcoin as a mathematical framework does not make it free of politics. For in it’s design it also contains certain (unconscious) political ideas about society that are grounded in anarcho-capitalism. The mathematical framework has thus for not shown to be capable of preventing the extremely quick formation of potentially disruptive monopolies in a system that was designed to be neutral and decentralized.
The idea that setting the right technical parameters will remove the necessity for supervision and accountability is thus incorrect. For we are witnessing the appearance of #cartels and #monopolies that could have never been formed in a properly regulated market. Bitcoin as such will not work to empower the individual and free him from centralized power, instead Bitcoin serves to create new #centralized_power_structures that are unregulated, opaque and unaccountable.
où l’on découvre les #mining_guilds qui « contrôlent » bitcoin
]]>How Companies Learn Your Secrets - NYTimes.com
►http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits.html?_r=2&hp=&pagewanted=all
Impressionnant, long et bien écrit, à la mode des journalistes du NYT.
Est-ce que ça change quelque chose d’être considéré comme une machine à répondre aux sollicitations ?
]]>How we made our maps | Hacks/Hackers
►http://hackshackers.com/blog/2011/11/06/how-we-made-our-maps
#cartographie #data #mining #new-york
Dr. Michael Hendryx, measuring mining’s toll on health | Living on Earth
►http://www.loe.org/blog/blogs.html?seriesID=1&blogID=17
This week the Journal of Community Health published a study that found people who live near mountaintop removal coal mines have cancer rates twice as high as people living elsewhere in Appalachia. Last month, a peer-reviewed study linked mountaintop removal mining to high rates of birth defects.
And in February, a study pegged the public health costs of coal in Appalachia at about $80 billion a year.
Aside from all being about coal, these studies have something else in common: they were all co-authored by Dr. Michael Hendryx, an associate professor of community medicine at West Virginia University. Since landing in West Virginia five years ago, Hendryx has been filling a void in medicine’s understanding of the health impacts of coal mining.
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