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Fiat money


SBF probably killed way more people indirectly (Suicide, homelessness, worse life conditions, ...)


Yes its very oxidised


No matter how much you own, you cannot change the protocol's rules, that's the point of Bitcoin and one of the reasons it has to consume energy.


Really interesting



Pivot to ML workloads, much less money laundering in that use case.

https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/saving-the-planet-with-bett...


Much harder to deploy as the hardware and infrastructure is more complicated than simple asic bricks that can run on every oilfield in Siberia.

Also bitcoin is way more beneficial to society than ML training.


> Also bitcoin is way more beneficial to society than ML training.

Citation required, or at least an explanation.


Its very easy to buy bitcoin completely permissionless without kyc on p2p trading platforms like Robosats or Bisq.

Also privacy is easy to achieve by using cashu, lightning or just doing a coinjoin with joinmarket


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