Bitcoin... Destroying the planet

[kurt.buff at gmail.com (Kurt Buff)]

On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 7:31 PM, g2s <g2s at riseup.net> wrote:
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Michael Nelson <nelson_mikel at yahoo.com>
> Date: 12/8/17 6:22 PM (GMT-08:00)
> To: cypherpunks at lists.cpunks.org
> Subject: Bitcoin... Destroying the planet
>
>> The mapping between Bitcoin and energy is missing the point...
>
> Not if the point is a dead planet.
>
> That's ALL I care about. Cars, which you mention, are another much thornier
> issue because they've been made a social necessity and that will take time
> to undo. As with another not often acknowledged source of carbon based
> pollution due to humans... The factories that make damn near everything
> consumer industrial societies have.
>
> But unlike those things, bitcoin generates huge amounts of pollution due to
> its electric demands, and, bluntly, it isn't necessary in any way shape or
> form.


Neither are coffee, tea, chocolate, sugar, sex and any number of other
things that offend the sensibilities of the overly sensitive, and they
aren't likely to disappear either...

Kurt