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• jmull 3y ago
  > let’s examine the hypocrisy of singling out bitcoin specifically It isn't being singled out though. There's widespread concern across a broad set of cases where energy is being used. Also, if you recognize that the use of energy isn't always bad, but it's the overuse of energy that is problematic, it's natural to prioritize: you want more of the energy usage to be on the more beneficial things and less on the less beneficial things. So you might target bitcoin on its merits, not because of hypocrisy. The problem with your argument is that it means either everything should be addressed simultaneously in any discussion of energy usage or nothing should be, since you can make the same argument no matter what the specific topic is.
• sumeno 3y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
  • happytiger 3y ago
    True. I removed the comment.
• Scarblac 3y ago
  Because what we get in return is so incredibly tiny with Bitcoin. Less than 450k transactions per day, world wide. With most of them just people speculating.