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Bitcoin mining currently consumes less that 0.2 % of global energy consumption. Smartphone use and the associated radio infrastructure use somewhere between 1%
by jkepler 4y ago
Bitcoin mining currently consumes less that 0.2 % of global energy consumption. Smartphone use and the associated radio infrastructure use somewhere between 1% to 2% of global energy.
How much energy do central and commercial banks, auditors, accountants, corporate currency hedge trading desks, and the armies that back fiat currencies use? Way, way more than bitcoin... and they don't provide a way to pay electric grids to build out renewables the way bitcoin mining does.
- nh23423fefe 4y agoIs this what indoctrination looks like?
- tossl568 4y agoWhat does dollar indoctrination look like? Like asking a fish what water is I suppose. It's all we've known.
- anonporridge 4y agoIt looks like supporting two unwinnable, simultaneous wars in the Middle East that cost the country trillions and hundreds of thousands of humans directly and indirectly murdered.
- nh23423fefe 4y agoWars of retribution are the result of fiat currency? The thread gets thinner and thinner...
- anonporridge 4y agoAfghanistan was arguably a war of retribution, despite the fact that Saudi Arabia was closer to the guilty parties. Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 if that's what you're trying to say.