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No, PoS is an insecure trick that reinvents TradFi power structures. PoS bitcoin has been tried, and it is worth very little (like other PoS coins). Bitcoiners dont consider energy usage a actually a problem, infact, it is one of its greatest strengths!

PoS is not the path forward. Reducing energy is not the path forward. Clean energy generation is the only way forward.

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1 megawatt can give you X satoshis of imaginary bla bla.

1 megawatt can smelt a lot of metal that can build bridges and electric vehicle parts, for example.

Whereas energy production is finite. Whereas BTC and it's ilk steal from the mouths of babes. Whereas BTC and it's ilk currently cause real externalities, in the real physical communal world we share.

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