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How many skycrcapers are there in the world constructed for financial institutions. Want to go down the rabbit hole of calculating that CO2? Also, cite your so
by anm89 6y ago
How many skycrcapers are there in the world constructed for financial institutions. Want to go down the rabbit hole of calculating that CO2?
Also, cite your sources
- rspeele 6y agoDo you think financial institutions, and skyscrapers they inhabit, would not exist in a BTC-powered world? People won't want to use their BTC to invest in companies on the stock market, trade commodities futures, or issue loans?
- lambdaba 6y agoThat's a bad example but one thing that wouldn't happen is a government manipulating its currency to finance wars.
- rspeele 6y agoHow much war happens because of fiat currency manipulation that wouldn't happen otherwise? Seems like humanity has engaged in war on a pretty regular basis since long before people decided to put their trust in paper money.
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- XorNot 6y agoAre all those ASIC miners just sitting out in fields then?
- anm89 6y agoShow me a skyscraper that is even 10% filled with asics and I'll send you a bitcoin.
- XorNot 6y agoI'm sure Coinbase's office's are also just a barn built from sustainably sourced lumber somewhere as well. This is such a disingenuous point: as though a world running on Bitcoin wouldn't be filled with the exact same financial institutions, doing the exact same things they do now, even though those exact things are what all the new business involving Bitcoin are generally trying to do.