Environmental footprint

Unlike the use of blockchain in financial systems and transactions, the approach in Ethernos is different and the challenges imposed by different consensus mechanisms involving hundreds of thousands of users and transactions between them that have to be validated and propagated are not present. There is no need for a proof of work or proof of stake validation peer system.

Ethernos runs a user-specific blockchain ledger system that is focused on optimizing the storage between meta chains of memories and cognitive and factual blocks by applying a local consensus between the memories of the same user. The validation of chronology happens during vault staking when data is submitted asynchronously for the same moment in time from multiple devices of the same user.

The user meta chain memory ledger and anti-proof of history mechanism are shared across all the different user devices running the Ethernos wallet. The impact on the environment is strictly bonded to the hardware device itself, all the processing being done on-premise by using the hardware resources of the device that runs the wallet app.

An additional layer of energy consumption is introduced by the cloud backup where the footprint is equal to any cloud deep storage system on a / TB of storage.