Carbonhysterics coming after Bitcoin will be the end of carbonhysteria. Nobody does their homework as thoroughly as bitcoiners, while climate hysterics are either scammy careerist grifters or unthinking simpletons who believe marketing press releases.
Carbonhysteria is science by press release and intimidation. You can't keep a career in fiat unless you are hysterical about CO2. Bitcoiners can't be cancelled because they have hard money savings. You'll have to run the numbers & show the receipts to convince them. Good luck!
Here's a sample of what sane people who aren't making a living from spreading hysteria have to say on CO2 & climate: @AlexEpstein: The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels. @ShellenbergerMD: Apocalypse Never.
Steve Koonin: Unsettled. @ClimateAudit: climateaudit.org
Bitcoiners will literally run an entire global monetary & financial system on their computer rather than accept 2% inflation.
Good luck convincing them to give up modern civilization because an essential trace gas is boiling oceans by rising from 0.028% to 0.041% of atmosphere.
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Bitcoin consumes so much energy because it uses a fully mechanical & digital process to ascertain truth. It doesn't rely on the authority of anyone.
It isn't a more energy-intensive way of doing consumer payments; it's a less energy-intensive way of achieving consensus than war.
All attempts to compare bitcoin energy consumption with banks, consumer payment technologies, central banks, or gold completely miss the point of bitcoin's real opportunity cost. Bitcoin doesn't replace these & they can, in principle, coexist with bitcoin.
Bitcoin replaces the need for strangers to have to be subject to the same government & central bank in order to trade internationally, which necessitates one government imposing its will on the rest of the world, which can only be done with war.
"Akshully, this anecdotal data of rising prices is not enough to prove inflation. You need to look at the entire basket of goods, like the CPI does, and the CPI finds very low inflation, so your anecdotal data is DEBUNKED"
Fiat scientist takes fish from the sea and puts them in fish tank and reports they were scared. He blames CO2 and establishes an entire field of study. And he would have gotten away with it if it weren't for...
...these badasses who went to the sea instead of playing with fish tanks and found that fish don't care about tiny increases in CO2 levels, because they're smarter than many humans.
The best advice I can give people interested in learning about bitcoin is
SHUT UP ABOUT BITCOIN
Wanting to appear smart is your biggest learning impediment. Until you've spent many months obsessively & silently studying bitcoin, you don't have anything important to say about it
No matter how smart you are, it'll take you many months of studying several unrelated & highly technical fields to form a good understanding of bitcoin.
Until you do, you are just wasting your time & the time of those unfortunate enough to humor you. Put in the work of STFU
This is why bitcoin is the ultimate fraud-buster. Anyone who bloviates on bitcoin without putting in the work is immediately exposed. This is a proof-of-work system, not the fiat world where you just need to make the right politically-correct noises to get a lifetime job.
This sociopath hates bitcoin because he is literally a fiat academic, who can only maintain the pretense of being an academic thanks to fiat printers. In a free market he'd go hungry as an academic or learn a useful skill more suited to his cognitive capacity, like shoe-shining.
The National Science Foundation is connected to the US government's infinite money printer. They face no opportunity cost for all the fiat money they hand out to fiat academics to write fiat bullshit.
And even they couldn't get themselves to fully finance this loser.
All academics who have received funding from the US government or its fiat universities need to recuse themselves from discussing bitcoin due to a clear & obvious conflict of interest.
Their entire careers depend on fiat. Don't be surprised to see them get even more deranged.