food waste generates 60x more emissions than Bitcoin, yet nobody is freaking out about that, which makes me think people are just riding the ESG bandwagon

There's a lot of shit wrong with this world, we don't need to actively add to it, especially since we know how to do it better.

Food is literally finitely more important though

Bitcoin uses less energy than Gold Mining and the Banking System https://twitter.com/topimp21/status/1542863870552936448

"Bitcoin uses 2-56 times less energy than the fiat system" https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoin-environmental-de...

Bitcoin also processes over a 10,000 times less transactions than the fiat system

Yeah it also uses less energy per year then the sun... what a comparison...

Gold mining? What does gold mining have to do with the financial system in 2022? It's funny how Bitcoin's "goldbug" roots crop up from time to time in these discussions.

It also processes several orders of magnitude less transactions, and does so much slower (and at a higher cost). Please stop posting misleading claims.

What I posted isn't mutually exclusive with the parent comment.

The lightning network on top of Bitcoin scales the number of transactions.

Please stop placing claims where I didn't make any.