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Re:Blackouts have hit Iran. The government is blaming Bitcoi... by disruptalot on Monday January 18, 2021 @10:54AM (#25822954)
So is just about every other technology you can imagine. Namely air travel. Maybe you have clearer points. Probably they've been debunked 100 times over.
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Re:Blackouts have hit Iran. The government is blaming Bitcoi... by snakeboy on Monday January 18, 2021 @11:05AM (#25823087)
How do you even define "debunked" here? It's a subjective conclusion as to whether the immense energy costs are justified by the net value added to society.

Personally, I'd tend towards air travel being a net positive, while Bitcoin is well into the negative.

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Re:Blackouts have hit Iran. The government is blaming Bitcoi... by user-the-name on Monday January 18, 2021 @11:03AM (#25823069)
Nothing on the planet has anywhere near the same ratio of criminality to utility, or planetary destructiveness to utility that bitcoin has. It is way, WAY off the charts. It is unimaginably bad.
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