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      6 months ago

      Oh, are you talking about the insanely high non-renewable energy used to mine coin and distribute, which is way beyond even AI?

      Because I think it’s pretty evident that the coin halving heavily impacts our environment as it now takes twice as much energy to create the same value.

      Actually giving a shit about the Earth 101 for ya.