"the decision to buy one Bitcoin versus about 29 iPhone 12 Pros emits 195 times as much CO₂"
The headline made it sound like 195x a single iPhone...
The headline made it sound like 195x a single iPhone...
But he got 195 by multiplying 29 by 6.7. And 6.7 is the ratio between bitcoin and Apple CO2 emissions.
I'm not convinced that any of this computation is meaningful. We don't need this to prove that bitcoin is a waste of energy.