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chriswilmeron El Salvador adopts Bitcoin as official currency, first country to do so

You are correct! The other person is wrong. Transaction volume has almost zero relationship with mining energy usage (there are some very subtle connections, but those nuances are hardly worth getting into for this discussion).

chriswilmeron Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index

This is a stupid comparison. The number of transactions can be increased by a factor of a 1000 easily while holding the amount of energy expended constant.

chriswilmeron Beepi Winding Down After Burning Through $150M

Oh weird, this exact comment was also posted on reddit (r/business)

What's going on?

chriswilmeron IBM says it has made working versions of 7nm chips

I don't think the diameter of a DNA strand is 2.5nm...

chriswilmeron A Prediction: Bitcoin Is Doomed to Fail

Befuddles eh?

I'll just leave this here... http://www.befuddled.org/

chriswilmeron Bitcoin for the Befuddled – Our fancy new book and website

Co-author writing here. Although we think Bitcoin has (probably) a bright future, the book is really just about explaining how it works (the protocol and the cryptography behind it).