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Re:Green hackers around the world, let’s destroy Bitcoin by effie on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @10:23AM (#26078480)
Agreed. But while BTC consumes a lot, so do hundreds of other kinds of activities that are also by themselves insignificant. The pain of CO2 production should be felt by every consumer proportionally to what they consume.

We need to fix overall energy policy, make everyone pay for their consumption just amount, and keep fixing the damn production to get carbon neutral.

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Re:Green hackers around the world, let’s destroy Bitcoin by azernik on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @08:01PM (#26084635)
BTC is particularly egregious because it produces a lot less social value in exchange for its energy usage than A/C
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