[dboat]

Many industries do a lot of harm to the environment for profits. On the spectrum of those, where do cryptos fall?

I don't know and personally hold only a little bit, nothing I would be very pained to lose, but it would certainly cause a lot of economic harm to a lot of people to do what you propose. The idea cannot be taken seriously without first answering my question.

[chrischattin]

Youtube alone uses 2x the amout of energy as the entire Bitcoin network, for perspective.

[dtech]

Youtube provides entertainment for literally billions of people

Bitcoin provides... idk a way for some people to make a lot of money and some others to lose it?...

Even if we say that BTC provides some value by transferring money etc. the amount of value per Watt is so slanted its ridiculous to even make that argument.

[rapnie]

..to deliver quality video services to a billion people, instead of handling a handful of transactions for some greedy financial speculators.

[mytherin]

Source?

[pavlov]

That's just not true.