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Supporting heating in the winter == supporting global warming

Supporting agriculture == supporting global warming

Supporting any kind of traveling and international trade == supporting global warming

Reading the NY Times == supporting global warming

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Heating in the winter prevents people from freezing to death.

Agriculture feeds the world.

Travel, fair argument.

The power demand for a website is a drop in the ocean compared to the power consumption from a rack of GPUs or dedicated mining cards

…and Bitcoin is a revolutionary technology, providing a censorship-resistant money-exchange system.

We can discuss if this is worth more or less than <insert some other activity that contributes to global warming> and also discuss the merit of the new technology, but simple dismissing it as “contributing to global warming” is an inane argument.

It’s not even an argument. It’s pure propaganda spouted by oligarchs who have something to lose when humanity wins.

BTC opened the door and CBDCs will close it. Climate apocalypse is just a convenient rationale. They've often suggested using carbon credits as a supporting 'asset' for a CBDC system.

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