[j0ba]

Your assertion is that it's dumb to compare two competing financial systems?

The dumb analysis is to talk about Bitcoin energy usage in isolation, without comparing it to the present system. The present system would not work without police officers and military. Bitcoin replaces these things with servers and decentralization.

There is no military protecting the internet. You would need to bomb every country in the world to destroy the internet. The same is true for Bitcoin.

US military is 100% necessary for the dollar-based world order. The fact they do other things is not important. You still need the full US military to protect the dollar, even if they didn't do other things.

[jallen_dot_dev]

> Bitcoin replaces these things with servers and decentralization.

This is totally absurd. We would still need police and military even if the USD stopped existing and we switched over to Bitcoin. You cannot replace them with servers because servers can't protect a nation or enforce laws.

> The fact they do other things is not important.

It is important, because it means they must exist anyway. So it makes no sense to factor in their cost if the cost would still need to be paid regardless of which financial system we use.

[yellowapple]

> We would still need police and military even if the USD stopped existing and we switched over to Bitcoin.

We would need less of them.

[anigbrowl]

There is no military protecting the internet.

My dude there is a whole lot of public security infrastructure protecting the internet. Just because the basic internet protocols are public doesn't make it magic.