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No, by buying and using energy that isn't produced in a sustainable way you too are responsible for the damage it does. But as others already have pointed out,
by Ma8ee 5y ago
No, by buying and using energy that isn't produced in a sustainable way you too are responsible for the damage it does.
But as others already have pointed out, this is not what the article is about.
- tentacleuno 5y ago> No, by buying and using energy that isn't produced in a sustainable way you too are responsible for the damage it does. We'll have to disagree on that one. If the energy companies won't invest in the greener solution, I don't see how people consuming that energy can be blamed. As much as I hate miners, blaming them for the disaster that is the energy industry is wrong.
- frereubu 5y agoIt doesn't have to be either / or, it can be both.
- Ma8ee 5y agoOf course you are partially responsible for everything you are spending money on, whether it is energy or blood diamonds. That is hardly controversial. If you wouldn't spend the money, it wouldn't be produced. And no one is demanding that you should stop using energy completely because you only can buy dirty energy, but you can choose to use less of it, by not using it for something that so far only have proved to be a huge Ponzi scheme. In many parts of the world you can choose to pay more for cleaner energy. But that would of course reduce the profit from mining.
- Devasta 5y agoBitcoin is designed to waste as much energy as possible. Even if the energy companies waved a magic wand and had a huge amount of renewable energy onboard tomorrow, the end result would be the miners would continue to consume the energy from fossil fuels, but they would also consume all the renewable energy too.