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Agree. Wasting energy on bitcoin isn't the problem, energy production causing earth to heat up is the problem. I can think of many things equally or similarly
by emptyfile 5y ago
Agree. Wasting energy on bitcoin isn't the problem, energy production causing earth to heat up is the problem.
I can think of many things equally or similarly energy wasteful as Bitcoin.
- SerLava 5y agoWhat is something more wasteful than Bitcoin? It's a nondescript pollution factory from the Captain Planet cartoons. Every other wasteful activity has just been overconsumptive, decadent, or externalized, not an actual burning of resources for no reason.
- quickthrowman 5y agoWhat things are similarly energy wasteful as Bitcoin?
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- emptyfile 5y agoAmerican SUVs and trucks come to mind. We can for now ignore the wooden, uninsulated houses built in the desert with the AC on for 6-9 months of the year.
- damon_c 5y agoYes. The weird thing about bitcoin is that at least mining it doesn't create additional waste products. If you spent the same energy used to mine bitcoin on producing Legos or In-N-Out burgers, then you'd have much bigger problems. I
- zikduruqe 5y agoLike lawns. We seriously use way too much water, chemicals, energy and time on a plant crop that is basically only for our visual enjoyment. We often think of the big fixes, which are needed, where there are some low hanging fruit we could pick first that would make an impact. https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2010/06/04/the-problem-of-lawns/ https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2010/06/04/the-problem-of-... https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/anthropology-in-practice/the-american-obsession-with-lawns/ https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/anthropology-in-practic...