[desine]

Fair enough but I can't see that as more harmful than any other energy production. El Salvador still does not generate enough power to serve all it's citizens, so they will be building more power plants regardless. Hopefully they can balance bitcoin mining in the off-peak hours, and not create new plants solely to support bitcoin mining.

But I fail to see how geothermal's environmental impact is problematic.

[leppr]

The point is Bitcoin in an imaginary ideal scenario is at best neutral, not positive.

Bootstrapping energy production in remote places could have a few nice side effects sure, it just doesn't help its environmental impact.