The celebs have gone crypto

I had written an email to Mark Cuban back when he wrote a blog post about how he got interested in crypto stuff and NFTs (this was about a year ago). My hope was that I could convince him that, if he really wanted to have a positive impact on the world, he would instead use his reach to help educate people on the devastating ecological effects of crypto mining, exactly because no one else of his size was doing so at the time (and still isn’t, except a few, including Bill Maher - hats off to them).

No real surprise there, he never responded and instead just got more active on the crypto train.

Sadly, if things go as per usual, I expect this post to be downvoted by all the crypto bros and receive replies about how supposedly Bitcoin mining isn’t bad for the environment at all etc. and that this has already been “debunked”, and it’s instead carbon-negative bla bla. So go right ahead and knock yourselves out.

IMHO, we should be trying to avoid making senseless and avoidable mistakes that we blame previous generations for. Celebrities have a particular responsibility here as role models for younger generations. If only the crypto fiends/junkies were able to temporarily stop their profit-induced high and run on logic instead of greed, they might even be able to see this, too. Then they’ll find out that they’re not the good guys, as they like to think they are (for whatever reason).