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Why is there still an irritating loudspeaker in this flooded world?

The discussion about the energy consumption of bitcoin can only be discussed because we know how much energy it takes to produce one BTC. What we don’t know is how many banks there are in the world with all the computers and mainframes they use to keep track of all the fiat money. And then of course the energy to produce a hardcopy of that money like knocking down trees and mining metals. So in my opinion we only can have a useful discussion about energy consumption of BTC when we also know the current energy consumption of the banking system. Which I think is a lot more…….

Fundamental research or purely scientific research is not intended to solve a predetermined practical problem, but in the long run fundamental research eventually also results in practical applications. Like for example the internet and the weather report.

God is a point in an uncertain future. The more uncertain the future the bigger God wil be. This also explains the friction between science and religion,because science makes the future less uncertain and thus god smaller.