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Re:Europe must ban Bitcoin mining to hit the 1.5C Paris clim... by vegai_ on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @01:49AM (#29327524)
>I also think bitcoin is stupid.

Yeah, perhaps. Is it more or less stupid than almost every country having a military, some of which alone cause more CO2 pollution than BTC? Some of which have the capability of destroying all humans in 30 minutes? Some of which are actually trying to improve that capability right now?

I mean sure, the waste of mining is pretty dumb, but it's gonna be replaced with less wasteful methods at some point. But when are we gonna replace militaries?

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Re:Europe must ban Bitcoin mining to hit the 1.5C Paris clim... by klyrs on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @02:03AM (#29327586)
I agree with you in pure idealistic principle... but it would be stupid for every single major country to disband their military, without an ironclad guarantee that the rest would do the same.
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