Bitcoin is to crypto what the Model T is to automobiles - first to market with network momentum. Hedera is the Tesla Model 3 - it's built ground up from first principles to be the future trust layer of the internet, especially for finance/DeFi. It's aBFT consensus mechanism is built with KYC, real-time logging, can do 10^5 TPS vs Bitcoin and has finality in seconds across the network. Hedera is seven orders of magnitude (10^7) more efficient than Bitcoin in terms of transactions per kWh. 0.00017 kWh. It is the most energy-efficient "blockchain" (actually a DAhG) in the 'verse. Hedera is supported and adopted across industries at the enterprise level, has a burgeoning retail/hacker/creator community, and strong tokenomics. (Do your own research, not financial advice).

If you are genuinely interested in the future of trust, finance, technology, and care about sustainability.... you're probably already an HBAR hodler but if not, it's set to take over.

Check this comment out in two years.

Edit: To me, the main thrust of the article seems to be nothing new. I find bitcoin to be archaic and transactions can be so slow, ETH moreso. Unpredictable fees... etc. Sustainability-wise, though, the point is moot because it's not like BTC will disappear. But sustainable DLT tech can definitely work efficiently - carbon neutral to negative.

https://www.swirlds.com/downloads/SWIRLDS-TR-2016-01.pdf

https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.14848

https://nowpayments.io/blog/hedera-energy-efficiency-and-hba...

https://hedera.com/learning/sustainability/is-crypto-bad-for...