and this post reeks of missing the point. people should be judged for how they consume energy because excess consumption is simply wasteful, and in the middle

and this post reeks of missing the point. people should be judged for how they consume energy because excess consumption is simply wasteful, and in the middle of the ongoing global catastrophe called climate change - isn't something we can exactly afford obviously this raises the question of what is and isn't excessive, but I think there are apparent cases where the benefits of excessive energy consumption people clearly don't out weight the cost - see flying, cruises, rampant shopping, etc. I think Bitcoin and similar cryptocurrencies fall into that category, especially when there are other coins that require nearly as many resources to function