Bitcoin... Destroying the planet

[George Larson]

> bitcoin generates huge amounts of pollution due to its electric demands

"The physical money we use today requires a total of 11 terawatt-hours per
year to produce. Gold mining, another very labor-intensive process,
requires as much as 132 terawatt-hours. These numbers make Bitcoin and its
8.27 terawatt-hours look like a science fair project."

https://themerkle.com/bitcoin-networks-electricity-consumption-is-lower-compared-to-printing-money/


On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 10:31 PM, g2s <g2s at riseup.net> wrote:

>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Michael Nelson <nelson_mikel at yahoo.com>
> Date: 12/8/17 6:22 PM (GMT-08:00)
> To: cypherpunks at 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.
>
> Rr
>
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