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by btcindivist 2983 days ago
Ton of CO2 is generated by christmas lights. It trumps BTC or is very close.

Yes, producing a lot of cheap energy is an opportunity to use more of it.

There's a bunch of stupid things people do with energy and increase their CO2 impact. Bitcoin is just one.

I'm pretty sure abstaining from flying planes throughout all your life is more CO2 not emitted than building a small mining operation and mining for life.

I'm pretty sure if we summed up the CO2 impact of increased dietary requirements of athletes and body builders and similar would get to huge numbers.
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craftyguy 2983 days ago
> Ton of CO2 is generated by christmas lights. It trumps BTC or is very close.

So once you have a dumpster fire, it's OK to have infinitely more dumpster fires?

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btcindivist 2983 days ago
The rest of my comment explains that worrying about BTC CO2 impact is useless.

People do a bunch of stuff that has magnitudes bigger CO2 footprint.

Are we profiling CO2 usage? If so, what, we want to optimize the tiny footprints instead of the biggest?

BTC mining, just like Christmas lights, can work with solar. Then we are going to complain about electricity wasted.

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