Yes, good, blame the poor, make them feel responsible. Forget corporations, forget who is actually burning the earth down. The earth is going to die because YOU drove a gas car, used bitcoin, and don’t like paper straws.
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filister@lemmy.world 7 months ago
What a huge waste in times where we have global and urgently need to cut our carbon footprint a bunch of greedy people are living like there is no tomorrow.
GluWu@lemm.ee 7 months ago
NateNate60@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Bitcoin mining is a multi-billion-dollar business. The block reward along is 900 BTC = 38.7 million USD a day (at 43,000 USD per BTC as of writing), shared between half a dozen big mining pools. Bitcoin mining equipment costs thousands of dollars.
Mining bitcoin is solely a game for men with means.
GluWu@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Lol, $40 million USD. The actually rich people, the people standing up there laughing at all of us, are moving $40m themselves as pocket change. Zuckerberg just got $700M. They blocked Elon from getting $56000M. The 1% are laughing at the 99% and I’m starting to as well.
NateNate60@lemmy.world 7 months ago
40 million USD per day. That’s 14 billion USD annually.
robotica@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Also I’d like to point out that it’s not 1% of the population that’s like that, more like 0.01% or even just dozens. There are many rich people, but few are crazy rich like that.
Source: dunno just google it maybe you’ll find something
filister@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Ah yes, the poor who dig Bitcoin. Sorry but if you are having money to dig Bitcoin you aren’t exactly poor. And you know if we all as humanity change just our diet, the effect would be immense, so it is not only the corporation’s responsibility but also the collective.
kibiz0r@midwest.social 7 months ago
Oh hey, it’s the guy Dan Olsen was talking about in that Folding Ideas video!
AWittyUsername@lemmy.world 7 months ago
There is no tomorrow, because of global warming.
VampyreOfNazareth@lemm.ee 7 months ago
For you, mega flora will be super stoked.