<story><title>Elon Musk wants clean power. But Tesla&apos;s carrying Bitcoin&apos;s dirty baggage</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-crypto-currency-tesla-climate-insight/elon-musk-wants-clean-power-but-teslas-carrying-bitcoins-dirty-baggage-idUSKBN2AA193</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>keiferski</author><text>Is everyone that uses USD complicit in the actions the US uses to ensure it’s the global default currency?&lt;p&gt;I don’t really think so, so I’m not sure how Bitcoin is functionally any different.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tboyd47</author><text>Exactly.&lt;p&gt;How many wars started, how many countries destroyed, and how many livelihoods and families ruined for the USD?&lt;p&gt;No one wants to talk about that, yet we are supposed to wring our hands in grief over some extra computers left running. Give me a break.</text></comment>
<story><title>Elon Musk wants clean power. But Tesla&apos;s carrying Bitcoin&apos;s dirty baggage</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-crypto-currency-tesla-climate-insight/elon-musk-wants-clean-power-but-teslas-carrying-bitcoins-dirty-baggage-idUSKBN2AA193</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>keiferski</author><text>Is everyone that uses USD complicit in the actions the US uses to ensure it’s the global default currency?&lt;p&gt;I don’t really think so, so I’m not sure how Bitcoin is functionally any different.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>titzer</author><text>The link between Bitcoin and carbon emissions is absolutely crystal clear. The USD and American hegemony has a massive tangle of indirect dependencies through governments and bureaucracies, spy agencies, militaries, etc, none of which you can disavow yourself from.&lt;p&gt;Yet you can divest from Bitcoin by simply &lt;i&gt;not buying it&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s the absolute perfect expression of our greed as a species. Ruining the planet for ephemeral bits. Bitcoin might as well be rebranded the &amp;quot;anti carbon offset&amp;quot;. You&amp;#x27;re literally doing nothing but buying into a speculation market that is backed by only &lt;i&gt;bits&lt;/i&gt;, and those bits are obtained at the cost of a supremely inefficient cryptographic process which has attracted massive electricity investment simply to make money. It has zero indirect benefit to society.</text></comment>