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Yes, the creation of new bitcoins carries a similar trail described above.
But did gold or diamond mining bring more positivity? A huge amount of blood was shed for these valuable resources, in the same way it can be argued that the effort to extract gold bullion could have been spent on extracting food or building houses for the poor. But why ? The world is full of people who are controlled not by altruism but by greed and greed for profit. And that's fine.
Let's talk about dollars and any fiat. They are printed, is this a completely eco-friendly production? In addition to electricity, chemical components are used for this when compared with cryptocurrency mining. Therefore, I do not consider bitcoin mining to be something harmful to the world.
OP's thread is a stupid and pointless topic. There is no denying that bitcoin mining requires energy and the result of mining is also emitting waste that pollutes the environment. But if judged fairly, all industries use energy and are polluting the environment to a certain extent. What's more important is that they all serve the benefit of the user, and the user is us. Bitcoin too, it is bringing a lot of benefits to us from profits and other utilities. So, it would be quite one-sided and somewhat stupid to deliberately slander bitcoin mining and ignore other industries.
Not so stupid and pointless, since everyone sooner or later thinks about it. If you look at the mining of cryptocurrencies from the outside, then from the outside it really looks like money, electricity, premises and efforts are being spent on some kind of business, the result of which cannot even be seen or held in your hands, in other words, something intangible, like things from computer games. Therefore, this question arises. But in fact, if you at least delve a little into and understand the meaning of blockchain and cryptocurrencies, it will be obvious that this is a useful thing, which is many times more necessary than many things that are costly for resources and labor.
After all, this thing can change the world, and it already does, unlike the same premises with equipment that consumes electricity and contains, for example, servers of stupid games, or boring sites that were not and will not be of any use.
