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by llukas 3188 days ago
Please do not move goalposts - I wrote "environmentally significant" not "significantly impact climate change".

I don't think our technology is so advanced that producing 18TWh of energy per year can be done without impact on environment.

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You are the one moving the goalposts because the article is about climate change.

“Bill Gates has committed his fortune to moving the world beyond fossil fuels and mitigating climate change”

Back to my original comment: “You derailed the entire point of the article by taking a tangent into a completely different...”

If we move beyond fossil fuels and use 100% wind, solar, and nuclear energy, for example, does the electricity use for Bitcoin matter?