If human civilization survives the climate crisis, historians will look back at a facility that throws away 300MW of energy as heat, 24/7, by burning fossil fuels (which also generates waste heat) in order to participate in a tulip craze, and be unable to fathom what we were thinking.
https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/113266437383175019
Regarding the environment, Bitcoin is helping many places to transition to renewable energy!
https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-mining-renewable-energy-transition
If we speak about "making tech bros get rich", Bitcoin is extremely important to poor communities in Africa without access to banking!
https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/10/how-african-refugees-used-bitcoin-to-build-their-own-grassroots-economy/
I am not even talking about CBDCs and the impact of it on Human Rights.
Perhaps I am speaking to the walls, since it's more ideological blindness than real concern about the environment or people.
