the amount of just ... straight up disinformation that uninformed humans are generating about bitcoin is really something todayhttps://twitter.com/DanielleFong/status/1384206262045351952 …
look, i understand that there is a fine line of argument that says that there is a *decoupling* between energy use and usage, but it does not mean that they totally decoupled! obviously, coupling through price, and indirectly through demand for onchain ledger transactions, fees
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it's not an argument. it's how it works. i've already pointed out elsewhere that the coin price does heavily influence the energy usage. you're making an assumption that increased usage increases the price. that's specious.
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given what you know now, would you agree that your conclusion about scaling *usage* here is misleading? "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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forgive me, i mean to say that i'm still quite dubious as to the claim! i think it's being dunked on to quote tweet like that when the claim is at least debatable.
transaction scale, price, fees, energy use - these are really completely decoupled? not completely