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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The mining is terrible for the environment![/quote]

So are electric batteries and huge windmills.
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What a stupid comparison. Batteries and windmills are cheap sources of electricity. They replace harm from fossil fuels so they are a net improvement— more batteries and windmills are good for the economy and environment.

Bitcoin replaces nothing except maybe gold and obscure stocks as vehicles for speculation so having more of them does nothing good for the economy or environment. [/quote]

There are a lot of counterarguments. Bitcoin miners have been developing interesting projects that allow them to use surplus electricity off peak. The traditional banking system also consumes a lot of energy. The energy invested in bitcoin is the cost of making the network secure. [/quote]

Just because people make up FUD/fig leaf arguments doesn’t mean we should buy them.

There are already plans to deploy batteries so there won’t be “surplus” energy and it’s just nonsense to compare the energy used by banks to the energy used by bitcoin mining. And again bitcoin is not serving a purpose so there’s no benefit to investing a lot of resources into making it secure (unless you are a speculator or criminal). [/quote]

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