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macrominutes · 133w
IF you think that humanity/ energy usage is a bad thing. Specifically when it comes to carbon emissions. Then I think a case can be made that bitcoin is negative through that framing. I disagree wit...
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One of the things I don’t like about the energy argument is that it ignores how much energy the present system uses. That just gets brushed off. And arguably, the present system is less efficient because the energy is generated specifically to run it, whereas you can plop a mining facility in an area where energy is being generated for something else, but in excess and with that excess otherwise going to waste.
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macrominutes · 133w
That’s why I don’t make that argument in my hypothetical case against it. I’m saying that after those inefficiencies are cleaned up by bitcoin, energy expenditure per capita will begin to follow the Henry Adams curve again. https://cdn.nostr.build/i/8643f39d21c10d5ea3715de69668dbc6de36abfbcb...