[knorker]

> sounds similar to insulting Edison because he designed the inefficient incandescent bulbs

If he designed and sold that in 2021, trying to replace LED lightbulbs, and lying through his teeth to pump up the value of his lightbulbs, well then yes.

Can blockchain people please first come up with a use case, that isn't crime, before saying it's worth using more energy that many countries? (for a rounding error away from 0 number of transactions)

All the enumerated use cases are so naive and uninformed that clearly they've just been invented without knowledge about the field. "Move aside, expert in field, I'll just solve this with technology. No I don't need to hear you describe the issues".