[SamBam]

> its energy usage does not scale with adoption

And yet it has scaled, drastically, hundreds-fold over the past few years.

You could say that it scales with the price, which is true, but tell me with a straight face that if seven billion people started buying BitCoin that wouldn't affect its price to an extraordinary degree.

> Lightning Network

The magic words that have said every time energy is mentioned for the past six year, supposedly making us ignore the energy BitCoin is actually using.