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Three hundred kWh per transaction!!! That keeps my household running for 40 days!

Humanity has a pretty screwed up way of getting its global priorities right.

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What do you think human's priorities should be?

Just curious. I'm not a scam-coin fan at all.

I think that securing a safe and prosperous future should be an obvious one, and one that we're royally screwing up with the amount of energy we spend.

If climate change is even a tenth as bad as it is projected to be this will have been a terribly selfish era of history. We're essentially devouring our young.

Okay, but that came as a problem long before Bitcoin arrived on the scene. In fact, bitcoin itself is a response to an overreaching, overextended global system of control led by banks and other corporations - the same ones who have ravaged the Earth and lied about it, causing the runaway global climate change we have now.

Yes, bitcoin uses way too much energy. But if we had a more fair system in the first place - that is, distribution of resources - it is unlikely anyone would have resorted to inventing bitcoin in the first place.

Well you can't change it now. There's no use crying over spilt milk. I don't see the logic in creating this wasteful system in response to an pre-existing wasteful system, especially with how dubious it is that cryptocurrency is beneficial to mankind.

Like okay Alex Jones, we got a global system of control led by globally globalist banks. I don't think bitcoin is going to change that. Call me crazy, but that seems a bit grandiose.

Well, I'm no anti-capitalist, but I'd say we have to always make sure society serves human needs without excessive waste.

A broad, catch all, empty statement...i know

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