Thread by @saifedean

Have you figured out how to live an entire year without consuming any hydrocarbons or releasing any CO2?

Until you do, all your opinion about how others consume & emit are just totalitarian sickness.

We all have to consume & emit to survive & you don't get to choose for others.

Without hydrocarbons all your modern life is impossible:

Computers
Phones
All electronics
Cars
Planes
Trains
Modern medical equipment
Houses
Heating
And much more

Cannot be made without hydrocarbons.

Survive without all these for a year THEN lecture others on how to live.

Breathing emits CO2. As does growing & cooking food.

The idea of living without emitting CO2 is insane.

Nobody can stop emitting CO2 while alive. They can only use this criminally stupid idea to control what others do.

In most superstitious and primitive societies, the dumb majority of the population is manipulated into thinking bad weather is their fault. It's an eternally effective control mechanism because weather is never perfect & the priests never run out of things to blame.

Why should bitcoin consume energy when central banks consume much less?

Why should you get a washing machine when your hands consume much less?Why get a phone? Ventilator? Electricity?

Who gets to decide?

Either we all decide for ourselves or a master decides for slaves.

You're not being virtuous & compassionate by demanding to decide what others do with their resources.

You're just a despicable totalitarian whose life is so pathetic & out of control you can only make yourself feel better by taking down & controlling others.

For a different perspective from the brain damage on your fiat media. See these books:

@AlexEpstein The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels
@ShellenbergerMD Apocalypse Never
@EcoSenseNow Fake Invisible Catastrophes & Threats of Doom

In conclusion, the short answer to the question 'Why does bitcoin consume so much energy?' is:

F U C K Y O U