The majority of all electricity and auto power we use is an environmental disaster. My gore tex jacket, anything producing forever chemicals as biproducts is an environmental disaster (Dupont). Your car tires and mine apparently have biproducts affecting salmon health. But you're just calling out the hot topic -that's my point.

bitcoin's energy useage - yes it's completely wasteful by design. But one day in the future Bitcoin may not be in comparison to our gore-tex problem, our cow-methane problem. Keepin' it real. I'm saying 2050 it could be solar powered completely. Then batteries can be an enviromental disaster ... it's a never ending cycle

Call a spade a spade: it's the financial sanction power that will stop bitcoin. Why would the US give that up? Decline only.