It's posturing, it doesn't make a lot of sense. Powerful people and institutions have some of their power threatened by cryptocurrencies. They don't like that. They have a lot of say on what the media focuses on. People who are more left-leaning have a natural antipathy towards unregulated transactions, and connecting this with environmental issues makes it an easy sell.
Meanwhile the ad-tech industry is probably using an order of magnitude more energy, while destroying democracies, increasing political polarization for profit and decaffeinating culture to make it "ad friendly". But they have a *HUGE* say on what the media focuses on, so that particular story does not get a lot of traction. (Not even to speak of the modern web and its gigantic blobs of Javascript that keep CPUs running all over the world for who knows what. Nobody seems to care about that.) I say this as a fairly left-leaning person myself. I am in favor of wealth redistribution to counteract the inexorable cruelness of the Matthew effect. I am for socialized health care, providing the best education possible for all kids, etc. I am also in favor of not using disingenuous and patronizing arguments to further political agendas. Telmo Am So, 7. Aug 2022, um 02:53, schrieb Lessandro Ferreira Santos: > there are clean energies such as solar and wind, this discourse that BTC is > not sustainable has no weight, the world spends energy and pollutes more with > other things. of the 21m there are already 19m the network will continue to > work paid for by the fees the energy consumption will be for the use and not > for the "creation" > > Em ter, 12 de jul de 2022 12:27, Lawrence Crowell > <[email protected]> escreveu: >> Currencies are in some ways just as artificial as cryptocurrencies. In fact, >> most everything humans chase after is spun up as whole cloth, from >> countries, to gods, to money to belief in comrades in arms and so forth. >> Most everything humanity does is ultimately fake. Money is stuff we just >> "make up." Even the value of gold is something we "make up." We might be >> better off if we stopped making this crap up. >> >> However, with currencies at least in a representative system the average >> person has some impact. The crypto-currency trend has been the culmination >> of Milton Friedman's strange dream of privatizing almost everything. In that >> setting the average person only has as much power in the system as what they >> hold. An Elon Musk or Bezos etc has vastly more and so they not only have >> more power, they have more power to get more. A world of complete private >> forms of currencies is one that will lead to a sort of monetary feudalism. >> There will at some point be a few people, financial institutions and banks >> that own it all. They would come to be the overlords of the world. >> >> The collapse of the cryptocurrencies and bitcoin is something of some >> relief to me. The next dark age may be forestalled a few years at least. >> >> LC >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Everything List" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/2df15bdf-0573-4664-8582-f7b276a401bbn%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/2df15bdf-0573-4664-8582-f7b276a401bbn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAFuqQ-ma_c0NubBFa2ySgHnqxp1GMyn5X%3DScSOvKzZDsrRAgXg%40mail.gmail.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAFuqQ-ma_c0NubBFa2ySgHnqxp1GMyn5X%3DScSOvKzZDsrRAgXg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/63745be1-4703-4d6c-abd9-794e81ceee80%40www.fastmail.com.
