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Re:Buying a Tesla car in Bitcoins cancels 4 times the CO2 sa... by anonymouswacker on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @09:44AM (#26166792)
What about the CO2 impact of fiat currency in practice by governments & central banks? War has costs, so does welfare, and the electricity used to spin propaganda, etc. These are externalities that nobody is looking into, unless they have tinfoil hats on.
Re:Buying a Tesla car in Bitcoins cancels 4 times the CO2 sa... by imtringued on Thursday February 18, 2021 @06:36AM (#26178656)
Bitcoin is a paperclip optimizer. Every time you think the amount of energy it currently consumes is justified it will continue to consume more energy in the future.