Today's big Ethereum news is the launch of new tech that eliminates that energy wastage, without sacrificing security or decentralization.

It also lays the groundwork for scaling tech that will vastly increase the transactions per second.

I'm not a Bitcoin advocate, I just recognize the value the invention provided and I recognize that this whole cryptocurrency space relies on it being successful for long enough for anything else usurp it. If Bitcoin got hacked right now, everything crashes with it.

Compared to Bitcoin, there are consensus mechanisms that are a lot faster (3 orders of magnitude), cheaper (almost free transaction cost), near instant finality (seconds, not 1 hour) and leave almost zero carbon footprint. They just haven't been proven out at scale yet.