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by snickms 1956 days ago
I think both the article and this comment miss the point. If we generated power cleanly in the first place, there would be far less environmental damage everywhere.

The fact that Bitcoin now uses half the power of Youtube (from a terribly unreliable estimate) should not be such a distraction from the real problem IMHO.

Terribly unreliable estimate:

https://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+the+total+power+cons...