Re:Why All Cryptocurrency Should Die in a Fire
by wlll on Saturday May 14, 2022 @04:51PM
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> [their anger] makes me doubt that their rationale is balanced.
Yould be pretty angry with people who started taking dumps in your backyard, you wouldn't consider yourself unbalanced to feel anger at that right?
Bitcoin is taking a metaphorical dump in my backyard and I'm angry about it. We're likely to blow past the 1.5°C climate target soon, it was too high anyway, we'll probably blow past 2, and I've got two kids who I don't want to die due to food shortages caused by the bad weather, or wars caused by food shortages.
Why bitcoin and not <list of things that use power>? Because Bitcoin etc. don't give us anything. Nothing. No-one can point at anything these things are good for. No-one in this thread, no-one before when I've asked.
Shit in your own backyard.
You misunderstand me. They can be angry all day long. My point isn't that they shouldn't be angry, but rather that it makes me doubt that their rationale is balanced.
>Bitcoin is literally destroying the world
That's true for damn near everything we do. Everything from cars, to space travel to computing to doing laundry.
> firestorm of ransom ware
And the internet brings an endless stream of viruses, spam, malware, hacking etc yet somehow people can accept that tradeoff just fine.
Few new technologies are pure positive only, or risk free, or awesome straight from the start.