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So...saying (but what) "about the energy usage of video games and porn" is not whataboutism? Got it.

• colordrops 9y ago
  No. As I tried to explain, whataboutism is to distract from the topic to avoid addressing the issue, which is not what I am doing here. What I am saying is that no one sees any problem with using energy on porn and video games, and I think Bitcoin has as much utility as those, so I don't see why anyone has a problem with its energy usage either. My point is that sometimes pointing out people's narrow-minded tunnel vision, in this case applying an inconsistent standard to something they dislike, is mistaken as whataboutism. Now if I thought Bitcoin's energy usage was a bad thing, this would be whataboutism, but I do not.
  • thisisit 9y ago
    In my first post, just after the whataboutism I have explained why this has happened. You cannot attach yourself to a metric which Bitcoin did with energy and then complain saying - attaching energy metric is wrong/unfair to us. Pron and Games didn't do that to themselves. Still I digress.