Right except our current financial system is based ultimately on the petrodollar, which relies on alliances with brutal dictatorships like Saudi Arabia and aggressive defense of the fossil fuel industry. Bitcoin competes with this.
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I can't tell you how angry it makes me that I'm as certain as I am that goddamned crypto-mining is going to be what kills us all.
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same. what is wrong with us?
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You're right, Bitcoin's impact on the environment is negligible compared to political factors. For ex, the U.S. is shutting down enough nuclear in the next few months (to be replaced largely by coal/gas) to pretty much power the whole Bitcoin network:https://medium.com/campaign-for-a-green-nuclear-deal/bitcoin-and-baseload-how-hodling-nuclear-will-deliver-the-future-22b231bec5d5 …
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It doesn't matter, because any amount of energy needed to power the Bitcoin network now -- when essentially no normal person uses Bitcoin for daily transactions and they celebrate the network being able to pull off transactions at a rate of 1-10/hr -- is fucking peanuts
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