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		emurillo510 on Feb 2, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Over 2 percent of the US's electricity generation ... it takes a lot of computational power to secure something so important like protecting a whole digital currency. you can only make profit by creating renewable resources in bitcoin ecosystem.

realusername on Feb 2, 2024 [–]

If it was really a digital currency sure, maybe we could debate on that. But there's no way now the current real usage of Bitcoin is worth that much electricity though.

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