Damn, I knew the governments hated cryptocurrencies and will try to shut it down at some point, but I haven't realized there was such hostility towards it.
Consider the position of someone who believes bitcoin adds zero(or even negative) value, but consumes astronomical amounts of, often dirty, electricity while the world faces a climate emergency. Further, since this is a technical forum, all of this work to compute trillions of SHA hashes. On the flip side you have a bunch of peopple who rely on bitcoin as an investment vehicle and are therefore very invested in its continued growth.
It's understandable that emotions run high about this topic imo
It has attention, so it's a sexy thing to snark at.
When the Elon boom bursts, folks will be back to complaining about cow flatuence, birds getting killed by solar panels, or whatever the shiny environmental crisis of the day is.
