[Nursie]

> The only way we could stop all our energy consumption would be to cease to exist.

Who's talking about stopping all energy consumption?

> So, why is Bitcoin an irresponsible use and other technologies are a responsible use?

New financial instrument brought online during a climate crisis uses more power than most countries == irresponsible/malicious.

There, made that simple for you.

If you want to argue your opinion that such a thing is worthwhile given the background, that's a pretty steep hill to climb.

[shawnz]

That doesn't explain the rationale why such a thing in particular would be irresponsible and not other technologies.

[Nursie]

Who says other things are all perfectly responsible?

I didn't.

[shawnz]

I never claimed you did. I am just saying that you haven't justified why Bitcoin is actually an irresponsible use of energy. What makes its usage level irresponsible? Why is it more irresponsible than other technologies which use more energy than it?

[Nursie]

> What makes its usage level irresponsible?

New financial instrument using more power than most countries. Thought you might have got that by now.

> Why is it more irresponsible than other technologies which use more energy than it?

Nobody is making that argument. This is just whataboutery. But in general, the fact that it's a new financial instrument using more power than most countries, at a time when we have a global climate crisis brought on largely by our energy usage.

[shawnz]

> New financial instrument using more power than most countries. Thought you might have got that by now.

But you haven't justified why that is an irresponsible use.

> Nobody is making that argument. This is just whataboutery.

Yes, true, I guess you never claimed that the other ~99.4% of energy usage isn't actually less justified than Bitcoin. Sorry to imply otherwise.

[Nursie]

> But you haven't justified why that is an irresponsible use.

Because it's just a financial instrument, and it uses more power than the Netherlands, and we have a climate crisis going on. I'm not sure what it is you don't see here.

Any new financial instrument that added a whole country to the energy map like that would be a bad thing.