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Indeed it might be still killing the planet, if all the renewable energy we can make at the moment were to be used for Bitcoin and so the other needs must use fossil fuels. At the very least, this argument leads to the conclusion that we ought to stop mining Bitcoin until all energy is renewable, but something tells me its advocates won't be happy with that.



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