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If you find a significant portion of the communities you generally align with are fervently opposed to something it can pay to take a step back from your own en
by mdoms 6y ago
If you find a significant portion of the communities you generally align with are fervently opposed to something it can pay to take a step back from your own entrenched position and ask why. The environmental concerns around Bitcoin are not trivial. To many of us they are very, very serious. Not to mention the very real practical concerns around usage of Bitcoin - the fees, long confirmation times, poor throughput, etc. Again, real issues.
- s_dev 6y agoThis whole 'Bitcoin is bad for the envoirnment' reads like: "Volcanoes contribute massively to climate change we need to turn them off to save the planet"
- mdoms 6y agoI don't even have words for how dumb of an analogy this is. I am speechless.
- s_dev 6y agoThere really is no option to turn off Bitcoin even if humanity agreed on it -- author can only imagine suggestions that might thoeretically work but won't. It was designed like the internet to be virtually indestructible.
- rawtxapp 6y agoThat just means you didn't research it properly, if you had and stepped back, you'd know that layer 2 technologies are solving majority of your concerns around speed and fees and that the world will inevitably move to green energies sooner or later.