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Please make the rest of your point. You listed some other awful things.

GP did a good job making his point. Human beings need to prove certain things somehow. Seemingly wasteful things like printing colored paper to trade satisfy this need.

Your example does not seem to be an extravegantly wasteful activity though. Perhaps you missed my point?

Bitcoin is around 1,000 pounds of CO2 per transaction. That's about a 1,000 mile journey for an average US car, or nearer 2,000 in Europe. For a single operation on a currency?

Is this cool with you?

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