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I have no idea if this will end the madness but I hope it will. Given bitcoin's vast energy consumption, the "production" of bitcoins produces enough pollution to be responsible for a significant number of deaths, amortized. [1] Thus I have zero sympathy with those who may lose money here. [1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/shermanlee/2018/04/19/bitcoins-...
How do you feel about the aggregate energy consumption of all Candy Crush games being played (servers, network, phones, PCs, monitors)?
What about all the energy used to grow, harvest, produce, transport and distribute alcoholic drinks?
For that matter, what about all distributed energy used by Twitter, including all clients, data centers, network routers, corporate offices, etc (where few tweets communicate something worthwhile to an actual human)?
I have no idea if this will end the madness but I hope it will. Given bitcoin's vast energy consumption, the "production" of bitcoins produces enough pollution to be responsible for a significant number of deaths, amortized. [1] Thus I have zero sympathy with those who may lose money here. [1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/shermanlee/2018/04/19/bitcoins-...
I always wonder about this attitude. How do you feel about the aggregate energy consumption of all Candy Crush games being played (servers, network, phones, PCs, monitors)? What about all the energy used to grow, harvest, produce, transport and distribute alcoholic drinks? For that matter, what about all distributed energy used by Twitter, including all clients, data centers, network routers, corporate offices, etc (…
Bitcoin seems especially heinous because it a group of moderately well-off folks burning a truly vast amount of energy essentially for the purpose of getting more wealth than, say, non-bitcoin owners.
And given that unbridled energy consumption currently promises local and global disasters on an increasing scale, this particular use of energy especially outrageous.
Does that explain things?