The Swisscom Summerhunt is back!

DomiP · Jul 6, 2022

The Swisscom Summerhunt is back!

Dear community!

Summer has more or less arrived and is spreading. Starting today, the Swisscom Summerhunt is back again!

At https://summerhunt.ch you can collect virtual ice creams and win various prizes!

So it’s definitely worth taking part ;-).

Also exciting: The Summerhunt is technically based on NFT technologies and is connected to different blockchains, among other things!

Have fun collecting and discovering Switzerland. 🙂

SStauldoteiy82 · Jul 6, 2022

Which blockchains are these specifically?
NFTs have been used again and again in the last few weeks, either as can be seen in the media, is this also a danger here?
And, this is probably the most important question: How is the electricity consumption of these complex and energy-intensive technologies included in the climate-neutral subscriptions?

DomiP · Jul 6, 2022

@Stauldoteiy82 according to the webapp this is Ethereum, Solana and Casper.

To what extent have NFTs been mentioned in the media? I’ve paid less attention to crypto and NFTs in the last few weeks 😉.

I can’t tell you exactly what climate neutrality looks like, but @ThomasS or @CorinaS may be able to say a little more about it. Since the blockchain was constructed in a decentralized manner, I do not assume that it is a coverable, climate-neutral operation.

Ethereum as a network operates the network annually with an electricity consumption that is higher than that of the whole of Belgium. However, all three blockchains are more energy efficient than Bitcoin because they are generally based on the PoS principle.

It would be possible for Swisscom or the app provider to compensate for emissions by investing in climate programs.

Werner · Jul 6, 2022

@Stauldoteiy82 wrote:

Which blockchains are these specifically?

NFTs have been used again and again in the last few weeks, either as can be seen in the media, is this also a danger here?

And, this is probably the most important question: How is the electricity consumption of these complex and energy-intensive technologies included in the climate-neutral subscriptions?

My suggestion would be to simply allow the voluntary participants in the game to have fun.

In any case, in your role as a pure “fun stop” you certainly can’t contribute anything constructive to the topic.

hed · Jul 6, 2022

@Werner

Question 3 is more than justified, especially for a company that advertises its sustainability almost every day. Yes, you can have fun, but not at any price.

DomiP · Jul 6, 2022

I found something else at https://www.swisscom.ch/de/about/nachhaltigkeit/klimaneutral.html.

Swisscom actually only advertises climate-neutral devices, a climate-neutral network and climate-neutral subscriptions.

Online services are not mentioned here. So neither are the data centers or office complexes. A lot was probably achieved with marketing 😉.

But @Stauldoteiy82’s question is definitely justified.

hed · Jul 6, 2022

@DomiP

Swisscom is committed to being a climate-neutral company from 2025:

Climate neutral: CO2 reduction, recycling, compensation | Swisscom

It doesn’t really fit into the picture if you “try” to use several BlockChains “just for fun” for a summer game.

DomiP · Jul 6, 2022

Sure, that’s true again. But let’s be honest, even if it’s OT from OT;

Climate neutral and environmentally friendly is more of a trend today than anything else.

For example, our local energy service provider pumps the water into the reservoir at night using cheap foreign electricity in order to release it again during the day as green electricity and sell it at a higher price.

The Natel-Bank neon also has great accounts (irony) which are supposed to be climate-friendly and plant a tree for every 100 CHF spent. At the same time, you still receive mail from the bank for every Chabis, whereas others like UBS and Co. send practically nothing.

Sure, climate neutral is definitely a good thing, but it’s mostly just marketing as something else…

SStauldoteiy82 · Jul 7, 2022

@Werner wrote:

My suggestion would be to simply allow the voluntary participants in the game to have fun.

Of course, believe it or not: I also thought about this when I wrote my questions and I kept the questions that concern players to myself and only asked a few that questioned why for a game that, according to the information (I) knew Such technologies would be used to function with a simple central database or even just a table.

In your role as a pure “fun stop” you certainly can’t contribute anything constructive to the topic.

Stick with the BAG’s Stop AIDS campaign from before: So that fun doesn’t turn into serious.

Virtually any fun can be had with fewer risks or harmful side effects.

And for questions that are not constructive, there have already been a lot of informative postings.

But don’t let that stop you, enjoy the game.

SStauldoteiy82 · Jul 7, 2022

@hed @DomiP

According to the interesting interview with Saskia Günther from Swisscom Corporate Responsibily, the company is also 99% climate neutral by 2025 and in some areas the measures have even had a positive outcome.

Of course, it would be great if such personalities would get involved directly in the community.

On the other hand, @Werner’s objection is justified: I don’t know Swisscom’s current corporate culture and can’t judge whether something constructive comes out of it internally or whether it just slows down the fun and causes “bad blood” between the teams would.

After all, such a more complex technology is probably instructive for the developers to install and managers have the opportunity to work with (according to Linkedin) former work colleagues.

@DomiP wrote:

Our local energy service provider, for example, pumps the water into the reservoir at night using cheap foreign electricity in order to release it again during the day as green electricity and sell it at a higher price.

When I first heard this, it sounded like greenwashing.

However, at night in particular, more energy is often produced than can be used. It makes sense to fill reservoirs with the excess electricity, as these then represent relatively energy-efficient “batteries”.

If reservoirs could only be filled with rain, snow and springs, they probably wouldn’t be able to produce much electricity.

ThomasS · Jul 8, 2022

Hello everyone,

Unfortunately, we are currently experiencing some technical difficulties in the game Summer Hunt, which is why the game has to be stopped. We will resume ice cream production as quickly as possible.

More information/answers will be available here in the community once this has been clarified.

ThomasS · Aug 5, 2022

Hello everyone

We had to interrupt the Summer Hunt due to technical challenges and have decided for various reasons to end the Summer Hunt early this year. Prizes will be sent out over the next week.

We congratulate the winners and thank you for your participation.