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All those GWh wasted on “mining” only got us closer to the edge.
Not like the millions or billions of man hours wasted to make 50-ish removed into defacto-gods.
Don't forget its not just man-hours, but man-lives too
Potentially our future as well considering the carbon and ecological footprint of crypto, both in terms of energy spent mining, and production of single-purpose hardware that can't really do anything else, rival some medium sized developed countries.