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by sunshinekitty 1677 days ago
> especially since they are NOT cheaper to do transactions in and are NOT anonymous and are definitely NOT (yet) even close to green

citation needed

As a whole I agree with your statement objectively, but this cannot be said for each blockchain uniformly.

We also don’t need the internet to communicate, gift cards are used to pay scammers, there are other much larger consumers of oil like cars and planes. It’s disingenuous to dismiss this technology for these reasons, there are definite upsides worth exploring that you have alluded to.