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Re:BitTorrent inventor announces eco-friendly Bitcoin compet... by txcwpalpha on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @04:28PM (#15657237)
Bitcoin's total value being 2 trillion dollars is not the same thing whatsoever as bitcoin being responsible for 2 trillion dollars of GDP. There is no "merit" here.

We can have $2 trillion in GDP with paper money, too, and that uses 0% of the world's power.

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Re:BitTorrent inventor announces eco-friendly Bitcoin compet... by simplify on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @05:13PM (#15657630)
To be fair, paper money requires banks & bank employees, bullet-proof transportation trucks, government regulation, anti-counterfeit research & technology, and perhaps more.
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Re:BitTorrent inventor announces eco-friendly Bitcoin compet... by rspeer on Thursday November 09, 2017 @03:21AM (#15660745)
Whataboutism is a form of propaganda, not of fairness.
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Re:BitTorrent inventor announces eco-friendly Bitcoin compet... by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC on Thursday November 09, 2017 @06:43AM (#15661598)
Comparing the consequences of alternative solutions to a problem is not whataboutism.
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Re:BitTorrent inventor announces eco-friendly Bitcoin compet... by yayitswei on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @04:47PM (#15657410)
Not 0% if you count the resources required to enforce that paper money.
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