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  • shapesalad3

    https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/…

    A Comparison Of Bitcoin’s Environmental Impact With That Of Gold And Banking.

    Environmentalists take note: Bitcoin consumes/emits less than half of what the gold mining industry does, and less than one-fifth of what bank branches and ATMs do.

    • In total yes, per transaction no. Mainstream adoption would mean x100000 current impactdrgs
    • manufacturing the tools to run cryptocurrencies is highly energy consuming, involves toxic materials and others like GOLD.sted
    • nice try shape u dimwit. proportions of scale in relations above your intellligence.neverscared
    • trying every bullshit to keep the bitcoin anti- eco brutality alive.neverscared
    • @neverscared i think that's true about the person who wrote that article, can't see why blame shapessted
    • Just have a think.shapesalad
    • Where did all this trust for banks come from all the sudden? Arent they responsible for all the wars and shit?GuyFawkes
    • Crypto will evolve and get better, the banks had enough time fuckin everyone overGuyFawkes
    • banks will enter the crypto market...but they will not use a public blockchain. look at china. the only purpose of central banks will be to provide cash...uan
    • ...because of the feature of anonymity.
      the fight banks vs crypto is just noise to keep us plebs busy during the transition.
      uan
    • @drgs they get the BTC figure per transaction by dividing the energy usage estimate by transactions do they not?kingsteven
    • if you had 100x on the same sized network, each transaction would be 1% energy usage...kingsteven
    • https://www.statista…drgs

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