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Bitcoin miners win legal battle to keep mum about energy use [US] (www.theverge.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Good point, every form of money we can use has some inherent impact to the environment. Debit / Credit card infrastructure is consuming electricity 24/7/365 all over the world. Cash uses a variety of manufacturing systems that mostly run on electricity, and requires raw materials to be sourced and prepared for use as money.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Not to mention the usd is based on oil trades ..