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If such a thing existed, we could be sure that environmentalists and leftists would have openly embraced it, rather than nip it at the bud 50 years ago. Because they are Good People™. And we should definitely listen to them now because they Follow The Science™.

Solo dev running a 3 node cluster on Hetzner.

My point is that it's impossible to prove what the commenter was asking for.

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Hmm good question

The dumb analysis is to talk about Bitcoin energy usage in isolation, without comparing it to the present system. The present system would not work without police officers and military. Bitcoin replaces these things with servers and decentralization.

There is no military protecting the internet. You would need to bomb every country in the world to destroy the internet. The same is true for Bitcoin.

US military is 100% necessary for the dollar-based world order. The fact they do other things is not important. You still need the full US military to protect the dollar, even if they didn't do other things.

But why are banks so secure? I guess because of police partially. I guess those police need electricity too. But we need them anyways, so I guess that only partially counts.

But why dollars? Why not pesos, or euros? The dollar is backed by the US military, of course. I wonder how much electricity the military uses.

Anyways. Let's get rid of bitcoin. That will solve the climate crisis! We can sell anti-bitcoin stickers made in China on Amazon to show our support!

China banned Instagram et. al. because they're not stupid. They don't want foreign influence on their children.

US politicians are both corrupt and stupid.

Why would it matter if people in Berlin pay more than people in Munich, or vice versa? Energy policies are generally national, so national data is the correct level of granularity.

Most of your criticisms seem to stem from a lack of understanding as to what the word "average" means.