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by thrance 322 days ago
That's an obvious flat out lie, crypto consumes much more power than the banking system, because of course it does. It literally relies on proof of work, through arrays of GPUs pointlessly crunching numbers. And that's just to handle a fraction of the number of transactions the banking system does.

It's estimated that Bitcoin alone uses up as much power as an entire country: https://www.polytechnique-insights.com/en/columns/energy/bit...

And how many people use crypto again?

As for the thievery part: https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com

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it is ok my dude you do not have you use it. you think bitcoin uses more power than all the banks, merchant POS backends like visa and mastercard, things like SEPA, paper transactions, paper printers -because cash- , etc

you even mention gpus not asics and POW as a bad thing. it is the ONLY thing that is worth about bitcoin.

> https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/

try ctrl+f bitcoin lol