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Quite an amazing feat fitting all the ridiculous things Bitcoiners say about energy usage into such a short post.

1. The gold mining industry has nothing to do with bitcoin.

2. The gold mining industry has nothing to do with money.

3. The gold mining industry does not use anywhere near 0.1% of the entire energy production of the planet.

4. Just throwing the army in there for some reason, huh.

5. The lightning network does not "process an unlimited number of transactions".

6. The Lightning network does not scale.

7. Nobody knows how to make the Lightning network scale.

8. If the Lightning network worked, which it doesn't, it doesn't need to run on top of Bitcoin, so Bitcoin still does not need to burn 0.1% of the world's energy.



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