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      AugmentedRyan They list all the people they interviewed - thismachinegreens.com/interviews - and every one of them are pushing some crypto scheme or would benefit monetarily from the success of crypto currency. None of them are qualified to speak to environmental impact of anything.
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    AugmentedRyan I don't disagree with the idea that "petroleum is bad, spending energy on military is bad, and it would be nice if we weren't nationally in cahoots with dictators in the Arab world", but the idea that crypto currency which runs a lot on petroleum-based energy helps is quite odd
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      AugmentedRyan Also... the numbers they use for estimation don't reflect a consensus, even if they note a single source. Also, the idea that energy and money are specifically intertwined in the way that they are positioning is... questionable. Also it needs to be qualified relative to impact...
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        AugmentedRyan Also... the idea that the energy put into the mining of the blockchain is comparable to Native Americans putting wampum together is implied twice but also... incredibly laughable. Like... they are insulting our intelligence with this comparison...
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          AugmentedRyan Finally, as we've already talked about, the idea of "optimizing waste energy" is not particularly effective as an argument because to solve the current environmental problems we need to step down the production of that waste energy, not maximize its use.
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            AugmentedRyan Also, even if that weren't true, if you check my sources, there are numerous articles addressing the claim that crypto currency mining's requirements drive the development of additional clean energy and showing it is not an effectively proved out claim...
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              AugmentedRyan +the core argument in this (& some other stuff you linked): b/c more production of currency is linked to cheaper energy therefore currency production will fund green energy does not address the problem of existing dirty energy sources being cheaper than building new green ones.
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