Yet what about the websites that load over 10MB of JS/other tracking scripts? Globally it probably uses more energy than entire continents! Or at the very least uses 5-10% of battery life that could otherwise be saved.
Let's start by banning > 1MB of tracking related JS/adverts which do far, far, far more damage than Bitcoin.
Sauce: Use a simple web browser on mobile, one with adblock/tracking block and one without, see how fast the device with no adblock reaches 0%, I bet it doesn't take much time at all on the really heavy JS pages.
Lol.
I specifically pointed out that it's not about banning bitcoin. Make bitcoin a PoS. You can keep trading, you can keep being decentralized.
bitcoin and PoW are separate. bitcoin *can* be updated.
Why so defensive on PoW?
All those GPUs wasted on rendering Cyberpunk 2077!
All this energy wasted playing Minecraft!
Come to think of it, you should stop reading and commenting on HN. Every minute you unnecessarily keep you laptop powered uses energy and destroys the environment. Do your part to prevent the tragedy, I beg of you!