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Every swimming pool uses a swimming pool of water too. Wait til they find out about cattle, fossil fuels or mining.
Ummm, all of the examples you gave are actually more reasonable and valuable uses of water than Bitcoin.
SelfAwareWolf is that you?
Destroying the Amazon for beef is a better use? Swimming pools are better uses?
As opposed to using them for Bitcoin? Oh yes, 1000%.
The technology is interesting but the people and economics around Crypto is rotten to the core. Crypto as it is today is a shitstain on humanity.