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I always thought it was purely ridiculous that bitcoin requires mining which eats energy. So freaking ugly. The genius that created bitcoin could not see that the cheapest form of energy is coal and that his idea will just spew more CO2 into the atmosphere. Or somehow this genius could not see that? OK, yes... Iceland's geothermal energy.


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