Safekeeping the ledger of humanity is well worth the energy and capital cost of mining, imo. All that without any human being killed. But why should anybody say which energy uses are "good" and which ones are "wasteful"?

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The Energy Cost of Cryptocurrency

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Not endorsing wokepedia, but:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_usage_of_the_United_States_military

Safekeeping the ledger of humanity is well worth the energy and capital cost of mining, imo. All that without any human being killed. But why should anybody say which energy uses are "good" and which ones are "wasteful"?