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Re:Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index by paulryanrogers on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @09:11PM (#26097447)
Hyping BTC certainly isn't helping the iranian people solve their government problems. Rather I'd say it's doing the opposite.

Anyway, BTC is a bad fit for a modern world in which non-crypto energy needs already outstrip renewable supplies. Maybe we can talk once just feeding and housing the poor and hungry is solved sustainably.

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Re:Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index by jude- on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @09:48PM (#26097678)
I'm not hyping BTC, btw. I'm correcting misconceptions about it, so we can fix the very real problems with PoW causing pollution. I personally have zero exposure to BTC.

Regardless of how we both feel about BTC, it's here to stay, so we might as well figure out a way for it to continue to exist without actively harming people.

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