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The destructive green fantasy of the Bitcoin fanatics

• mikestew 5y ago
  The referenced white paper reminds me a lot of similar writings on things such as Intelligent Design (just to pick an example): refuting involves stopping after nearly every sentence, or paragraph at a minimum. "Whoa, stop. Let's go back over those assumptions." Every...other...sentence. It's just a bunch of smart-sounding words strung together to look coherent until you actually read what was written. IOW, I'm just parroting what TFA said. But the referenced paper is worth a skim, if only to keep one's BS meter calibrated.
  • jbotz 5y ago
    Maybe you could provide a link to the referenced paper... I'd rather not register on FT.com just to read this article.
    • phpnode 5y ago
      There was discussion about it here yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26892135 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26892135
    • Someone 5y ago
      https://assets.ctfassets.net/2d5q1td6cyxq/5mRjc9X5LTXFFihIlTt7QK/e7bcba47217b60423a01a357e036105e/BCEI_White_Paper.pdf https://assets.ctfassets.net/2d5q1td6cyxq/5mRjc9X5LTXFFihIlT...
    • mikestew 5y ago
      https://assets.ctfassets.net/2d5q1td6cyxq/5mRjc9X5LTXFFihIlTt7QK/e7bcba47217b60423a01a357e036105e/BCEI_White_Paper.pdf https://assets.ctfassets.net/2d5q1td6cyxq/5mRjc9X5LTXFFihIlT...