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Re:Many Bitcoin Miners Are at Risk of Turning Unprofitable by craftyguy on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @12:05PM (#16868446)
> Ton of CO2 is generated by christmas lights. It trumps BTC or is very close.

So once you have a dumpster fire, it's OK to have infinitely more dumpster fires?

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Re:Many Bitcoin Miners Are at Risk of Turning Unprofitable by btcindivist on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @12:13PM (#16868518)
The rest of my comment explains that worrying about BTC CO2 impact is useless.

People do a bunch of stuff that has magnitudes bigger CO2 footprint.

Are we profiling CO2 usage? If so, what, we want to optimize the tiny footprints instead of the biggest?

BTC mining, just like Christmas lights, can work with solar. Then we are going to complain about electricity wasted.

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