My Hatred of Cryptocurrency
God, how I hate this crap. People sit at home, burning kilowatts to generate a new digital puzzle piece — a so-called currency.
Nuclear power plants start sweating, and for what? The endless lust for money.
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In my opinion, cryptocurrency should only be allowed if it’s generated entirely with renewable energy. Period.
I don’t think the system itself is inherently bad. I can’t judge it directly, because I’m not a part of it. Surely, a lot of brainpower went into it. But it’s this mix of money lust and technology mania that drives people to mine crypto.
At a time when ecology should matter more than ever, this is the nonsense we focus on. My skin crawls just thinking about it — I get a “hate boner” from it. That’s not normal.
Some people must feel offended by this — I’m not completely against certain climate activism either. But the world is being ruined by stupidity, by people who think they are smarter than everyone else.
(Translated from german)
