We often mention the insane energy consumption of #bitcoin
, but not enough its insane electronic waste. Bitcoin eats 12 000 tons of custom hardware (useless for anything else) / year. This has a significant role in the current worldwide shortage on electronic components (wafers).https://twitter.com/davidgerard/status/1374302539919847425 …
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Replying to @FranckLeroy_
Not as insane as the plastic packaging most of the overly processed food and general supplies we buy at the supermarkets. Most of it can't be recycled and ends up in landfills. But we keep up this anyway. You know what fixes overconsumption of such products? It starts with a B
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Replying to @capoczino @FranckLeroy_
I love this argument, it's amazing "Sure, Bitcoin is itself a tremendous waste of resources, but have you considered it will also SAVE immense resources by causing a global economic recession and sending you back to a simple village life"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @FranckLeroy_
Great, people who think we need to return to a simple village life to safe the planet should buy Bitcoin then
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Replying to @capoczino @FranckLeroy_
Okay so put your money where your mouth is then Log off, sell all your electronic shit and put the money into BTC mining stock, roll up your sleeves and go outside and start tilling those fields for planting season You're gonna need the practice
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Cool! Schrödinger argument right? But aside of that. So Bitcoin consumes energy, bad. Better to live clean, agreed. So how many crops did you planted, sowed in the past year?
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Nah consuming energy for stuff that's actually useful and fun is good Fewer mining rigs, more PS5s
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Replying to @arthur_affect @soulexporter and
I have personally made a firm commitment to never plant nor harvest a crop, a commitment in favor of soft money and high time preference consumption and all the good stuff
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Replying to @arthur_affect @soulexporter and
The idea of spending time and money on entertainment, especially in the Pandemic Times, being bad is insipid. People aren't designed to be able to just sit in an empty room and stare at the wall, I'd rather be doing something fun and engaging myself.
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It's really when the Bitcoiners start going in on the "time preference" stuff that my anger becomes deeply philosophical and therefore far more intensely furious
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Zendervai and
Where does your hatred for low time preference stem from?
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Replying to @capoczino @Zendervai and
From it being a slave mindset used by masters to exploit you
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