False. For westerners who have to pay market price on electricity that's true, but GPUs have still been used in geographic areas where dirty energy is super cheap of even free for the right connected people (China, Iran, Russia and former Soviet republics, disputed conflict zones in former Yugoslav states, etc.)

That's also where most of the mining is still happening.

Other coins are minable with GPUs (because their algorithm was purposely designed to be ASIC resistant)

But bitcoin has been exclusively ASIC mined since probably 2013 at least

Even with free electricity and stolen GPUs you cannot profitably mine bitcoin (you'd get a fraction of a penny a month, less than the cost of simply storing a gpu)

And even if you could mine it profitably, you would be better off mining the worst shitcoin instead, much less a reasonable alternative like ETH or RVN.

So instead of being dependent on central banks, crypto is dependent on inside knowledge held by plain criminals or at least very shady businessmen. That much about the openness and transparency in real life.

The discussion is not interesting. It is well-known GPUs are not used for mining BTC. Mining other cryptocurrency? Sure. BTC? No.

Not true. Almost 40% of the hashrate is being generated from the US. https://ccaf.io/cbeci/mining_map

How much intelligence is required to mine bitcoins?