-------- Original message --------From: Kurt Buff <kurt.buff@gmail.com> Date: 12/8/17 8:42 PM (GMT-08:00) To: cypherpunks@lists.cpunks.org Subject: Re: Bitcoin... Destroying the planet On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 7:31 PM, g2s <g2s@riseup.net> wrote:
-------- Original message -------- From: Michael Nelson <nelson_mikel@yahoo.com> Date: 12/8/17 6:22 PM (GMT-08:00) To: cypherpunks@lists.cpunks.org Subject: Bitcoin... Destroying the planet
The mapping between Bitcoin and energy is missing the point...
Not if the point is a dead planet.
That's ALL I care about. Cars, which you mention, are another much thornier issue because they've been made a social necessity and that will take time to undo. As with another not often acknowledged source of carbon based pollution due to humans... The factories that make damn near everything consumer industrial societies have.
But unlike those things, bitcoin generates huge amounts of pollution due to its electric demands, and, bluntly, it isn't necessary in any way shape or form.
Neither are coffee, tea, chocolate, sugar, sex and any number of other things that offend the sensibilities of the overly sensitive, and they aren't likely to disappear either... Kurt You denigrate your point by stating sex isn't necessary. Ropes whips and ioT glow in the dark vibrators aren't, but sex is as necessary to the survival of humans as sleep is. Rr