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Re:Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index by gruez on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @08:59AM (#26089126)
There might be some concerns (eg. "wow gold mining is dirty, we should do something about it"), but I personally haven't seen anything close to "we should ban gold".
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Re:Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index by FrozenSynapse on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @09:36AM (#26089650)
because gold is useful, bitcoin only has speculative value
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Re:Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index by gruez on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @12:42PM (#26092314)
This is addressed in a sibling comment. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26089473
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