i should be smarter than to argue with bitcoin maximalists about the energy intensity of bitcoin, but seriously, technologists, the industry has a problem with energy usage *even at this scale*. if it 'actually' scaled to replace everything it would be catastrophic.
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even this article trying to defend bitcoin's energy usage vs this provocative nature article et. al. (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-018-0321-8 …) uses as an argument "you can't imagine to scale bitcoin to handle global requirements like that" -- i agree, i can't!pic.twitter.com/vlMmAVrc3H
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