> bitcoin generates huge amounts of pollution due to its electric demands
"The physical money we use today requires a total of 11 terawatt-hours per year to produce. Gold mining, another very labor-intensive process, requires as much as 132 terawatt-hours. These numbers make Bitcoin and its 8.27 terawatt-hours look like a science fair project." https://themerkle.com/bitcoin-networks-electricity-consumption-is-lower-compared-to-printing-money/ On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 10:31 PM, g2s <g...@riseup.net> wrote: > > -------- Original message -------- > From: Michael Nelson <nelson_mi...@yahoo.com> > Date: 12/8/17 6:22 PM (GMT-08:00) > To: cypherpunks@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. > > Rr >
