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I don’t own or trade cryptocurrency at all, I’m certainly not an investor in it. But aggressive ignorance does get my dander up, so I waste time on these kinds

• Nursie 4y ago
  But you yourself are parroting pro-bitcoin ignorance, in the form of your points about bank transfer and other things. This is something that gets my dander up. Your assertions like "there will be one or two real things that will make it." There might be, or it might all turn out to have been a giant waste of time and resources. International remittances are not problematic because we don't have the tech and we're all crying out for a blockchain and a volatile intermediate asset, but (where they even are still problematic at all) because of bureaucracy. Your point about energy might be the worst - for a start Bitcoin is actually becoming dirtier, as large portions of mining moved from China to Kazakhstan last year, and are relying on the local coal infrastructure. And the second point, that it somehow drives adoption of renewables - the world as a whole is trying to switch to cleaner energy. We already have massive pressure and demand in the entire energy market as countries try to switch away from fossil fuels. Meanwhile, fossil fuel power plants are either getting life extensions or just plain being brought back online to service the mining market - https://www.wsj.com/articles/bitcoin-miners-are-giving-new-life-to-old-fossil-fuel-power-plants-11621594803 https://www.wsj.com/articles/bitcoin-miners-are-giving-new-l... So, you wanna talk about aggressive ignorance, maybe address the log in your own eye?