[labster]

The main distinction is that airlines generate economic activity via tourism, shipping, and cultural exchange. Cryptocoins generate mostly black market activity; corruption is generally considered bad. If airlines disappeared today, people would still travel, with more time but only one order of magnitude more energy efficiency. If BTC disappeared tomorrow, people would would make most of the same transactions with more time efficiency, and six orders of magnitude less energy.

5-10% of people take a flight every year. For the US and Australia, it’s roughly half of all people. [1] is from a climate interest group.

Supposedly 3.9% of people worldwide own cryptocoins. Thought that stays would support my argument more but I suspect lots of hodling and not much trading.

[1]: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d30896202a18c0001b49...