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Comment by exabrial | Hacker News Reader

I completely disagree. The amount of c02 dumped in the atmosphere from this product is unfathomable. HN is full of environmentalists and I don't understand why they don't speak out against bitcoin and like technologies that are doing tremendous damage to the planet.

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The internet burns more. Why haven't you gone offline yet?

Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2016/06/28/ho...

Maybe because the internet actually provides tremendous value to society in exchange for that energy, unlike Bitcoin.

Or maybe because there's no inherent reason why the internet couldn't be made more energy efficient, also unlike Bitcoin.

  the internet actually provides tremendous value to society

Like cat videos and clickbait?

Because it's not an 'unfathomable' source of pollution, it's a fraction of a fraction.

Maybe focus on the source of the problem - energy production. As long as the energy is being produced with renewable resources, it doesn't matter how much is used to mine.

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