That’s not a straw man. It’s literally how huge portions of crypto are mined right now. Were you trying to say “red herring”? Regardless, energy is a market an

That’s not a straw man. It’s literally how huge portions of crypto are mined right now. Were you trying to say “red herring”? Regardless, energy is a market and even if crypto used purely renewable energy, that’s energy that wasn’t used for replacing fossil fuels in some other use case. Literally any technology that massively boosts energy consumption has the same problem.