Re:How to Kill Bitcoin (Part 2)
by mdoms on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @01:22PM
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If you find a significant portion of the communities you generally align with are fervently opposed to something it can pay to take a step back from your own entrenched position and ask why. The environmental concerns around Bitcoin are not trivial. To many of us they are very, very serious. Not to mention the very real practical concerns around usage of Bitcoin - the fees, long confirmation times, poor throughput, etc. Again, real issues.
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This whole 'Bitcoin is bad for the envoirnment' reads like:
"Volcanoes contribute massively to climate change we need to turn them off to save the planet"
I don't even have words for how dumb of an analogy this is. I am speechless.
There really is no option to turn off Bitcoin even if humanity agreed on it -- author can only imagine suggestions that might thoeretically work but won't. It was designed like the internet to be virtually indestructible.
That just means you didn't research it properly, if you had and stepped back, you'd know that layer 2 technologies are solving majority of your concerns around speed and fees and that the world will inevitably move to green energies sooner or later.