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Green and crypto are incompatible ideas. You don't waste for the sake of wasting when you're looking to be green.


Disagree. Waste is subjective, and ultimately not for you to decide. If the miners do not find it wasteful, who are you, the non-economic participant to say it is?

Green and crypto are quite different things, supply and demand — green is about production, the only important part. How we generate energy in a clean and sustainable way.

Crypto is about consumption, and you have no business telling others how they should spend energy. You can however incentivize the consumers to do it cleanly. You can be green and also pro-energy usage.

Being green doesn’t mean being a bully and telling people what they can and can’t do.


Banks use way more electricity just cooling and heating their offices for the meat sacks that run their business than crypto ever will.


1. Doubtful, as Bitcoin alone uses more power than entire countries

2. Banks provide orders or magnitude more services than cryptocurrency ever will


How about some proof instead of pulling numbers out of your ass?




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