Independent of this as usual: of course someone should also review the energy usage of everything including the military.
We are talking here about crypto and not military
Slightly more, like for example, killing over 1 million Iraqis over a lie about WMD, or bringing freedom to the people of Libya which resulted in the country going from the highest per capital standard of living in Africa to one of the poorest and one that now features open-air slave markets?
Notably both Iraq and Libya had the audacity to try and trade their oil in something other than US dollars. I don’t think it is a coincidence that every single country that tried to trade oil in any currency other than USD this century was rewarded with an invasion by the US military. That is simply the US military doing it’s job in protecting US dollar hegemony.
> Independent of this as usual: of course someone should also review the energy usage of everything including the military.
But you still haven’t explained why we should prioritize banning Bitcoin mining over say banning the US military. Especially when, by objective measure Bitcoin mining consumes less than 0.0001% of the energy of the US military, not to mention other externalities like the widespread death and destruction caused by the US military simply to protect the US dollar.
> We are talking here about crypto and not military
Perhaps, maybe we SHOULD be talking about the military. See my points above.
Why?
You continue to ignore each and every point I raise to in response to your arguments.
Why?
It's just not the same at all.
Referencing the us military instead of discussing Bitcoin and it's issues is strawmanning.
Instead of arguing about the point you talk about something different.
And as stated a few times: yes we need to discuss the energy usage of ALl things.
But on a Bitcoin topic the discussion is about Bitcoin and not the us military