> Beware of what -isms you are repeating and supporting > Overall, blockchain currency has the ability to help humanity. If that requires more power, well, so

> Beware of what -isms you are repeating and supporting > Overall, blockchain currency has the ability to help humanity. If that requires more power, well, so does everything. You jump immediately into whataboutism: what about all the other things that require power. Bitcoin is not beyond criticism. It is currently 99.99% used for speculation. Does it have potential? Absolutely. Do a number of competing non-PoW/non-blockchain based solutions also have potential? Yes. Do those competitors potentially use far less energy? Also yes. In the best case, Bitcoin is using a metric shit-ton of energy before actually hitting critical mass for its social use-cases. In its worst case, its a Tether-backed ponzi that is siphoning a tremendous amount of energy from more productive uses.