Ordering food online vs. Terrawatts of energy wasted, Asics hardware and GPU prices and the created co2 of all of that.
Mmhhh difficult very difficult
Lol, compare and contrast apples to apples first and you'll see the cost in energy is negligible.
Also what do when POS drops and ruins your current strawman argument.
There was zero other way to pay for it, people were literally walking over to Columbia to get money they could use.
Anyway I can see your a bad faith actor, GLHF!
Don't get me wrong I am sure bitcoin is worse in terms of power usage, but not every crypto is automatically worse than what we have right now.
It's easy to make it renewable with benefits to us. The solar panel on a bank building is giving energy to people.
And I'm not saying that the current banking system is perfect (it actually optimizes itself quite well) but it has much more features while Bitcoin/crypto doesn't have real solutions for huge issues.
Fraud, scams, money laundry, investment tools, sepa, bank account recovery, global market regulations, sanctions Support etc.
And it does all of that with billions and billions of assets.
While Bitcoin consumes energy.
In an utopian society we don't need banks and no PoW crypto but that's not what is critical now.
Besides aluminum smelter, due to high energy costs there are other critical industry affected as well: paper making and glass making. Bottles for example.
It was farmer that turned his farm into direct sales, used an Uber like service to deliver and used DASH as point of sale and store of value...is what I did illegal??
There are a ton of uses cases out there where blockchain tech can provide a faster better solution, not every single case but it's there.
Even the 'criminal' side is nothing compared to the USD and how it's used. That same argue applies even stronger to fiat currencies.
A bankless note isn't a new idea, ops solution is novel and well thought out and there are markets that it solves pain points.