If your goal is to "save the forests," it might be more effective to focus on industrial consumption (which includes newsprint), as it accounts for 50% of total wood use, and fuel burning, which accounts for the other 50%.

One side is aware of the hypocrisy. It's a proportional counter-attack against the fools behind the NYT.

Most people know that, just like most people know that Bitcoin mining uses mostly stranded or clean energy (the public ones especially, knowing that there’s a ESG hysteria and they can’t get away with doing anything but).

It’s possible you’re missing the point of the parody – where the same bombastic unhinged tone of the NYT was reflected back on them.

Robert (QSLV)

Wow, nobody has ever raised these issues before.

Hey, when is anybody ever going to say that Emperor Bitcoin is stark naked?

I mean, I'm not saying that there aren't good reasons for decentralized digital currencies. I don't find them useful in my personal life, but I don't doubt that other people find them useful. That isn't the point.

The point is, when your pet digital project needs new electrical power plants to function, maybe it's time to think that your pet digital project is in desperate need of some re-vamping, so that it isn't so damned wasteful. It isn't even a matter of the climate impact of the electrical power plants, or that there may not be so much energy sloshing around to use it up on pet digital projects. It's just a matter of basic common sense: when anything seems to be using up vast amounts of a useful resource, isn't it time to think whether there aren't better ways of doing whatever you are doing, or even, whether whatever you are doing needs to be done as much as you think?

I get it, people are making money thanks to bitcoin. But are you even sure that the money you are making is going to be available to you when you need it? I mean, what use is some sort of digital money if there are power cuts and you can't access it? What use is digital money if climate change is reducing crop yields and people are going hungry?

Or is bitcoin the digital equivalent of Easter Island statues?