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by gcmartinelli 2724 days ago
Criticizing cryptocurrency for it's energy consumption is absolutely ridiculous. Every step in technology requires ever increasing energy consumption... hell... the universe expects us to keep increasing complexity and energy consumption! Increasing entropy is basically our purpose...

And trying to decide what is - or isn't - a valid use of energy is pure arrogance. If anything, we should be arguing about energy sources...