It’s not a trope it’s facts you dislike and refuse to engage with. You are a miner, you are part of the problem and of course you are looking for anything you can to justify what you do without having to ask if you're the baddies. Such a disclosure would have been helpful in advance and would have saved me some time.

I'm sorry you're trying to defend the indefensible: kilotons of e-waste per year and the energy consumption of a small country to achieve the work of a Raspberry Pi.

97% of all bitcoin mining ASICs will never mine a single block. Ever. Just straight from factory to landfill with a long sojourn warming up the planet.

Everything beyond those facts are mental gymanastics.