What’s an NFT? Imagine if you could burn a half ton of coal and a small forest to print a “Certificate of Authenticity” for a GIF.

Hi, everyone! I don’t have a SoundCloud but you could check out my employers @aneventapart and @igalia, and you should definitely donate to @humanutility to give water to those denied it because they don’t have enough specially marked slips of paper, which is crazy.

@nicklockwood @tonyarnold I wish you were exaggerating, but some people actually use their crypto miners to save up on heating:

Because not everyone knows: If Bitcoin’s price ever reaches $1m it will output more carbon than the entire US and consume 2x the entire electrical production of the US.

And it gets worse 🧵

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As the price goes up it’s worth it for miners to spend more to mine a coin. Even if it costs them enormously in energy costs.

Will they? Guaranteed.
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Because this has the exact same financial incentive as the drug trade.

As long as someone who wants to better their finances can make a fortune destroying a common good at least one psychopath will do that.
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And Bitcoin is (largely) anonymous so they could be the PRC or North Korea but they could just as likely be warlords who invade and capture nuke plants.
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There won’t be a way to stop these miners because the financial incentives are all backward and built *deliberately* so.

Bitcoin is propped up by people who don’t trust community decisions. They’ve inoculated BTC against human society.
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