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> What the fuck are you talking about?

Cryptocurrencies and the relative irrelevance of the energy consumption associated with them.

> just for currency?

Not just any currency, one that guarantees privacy and anonymity.

> You think using the worlds energy to generate random numbers is a form of freedom?

I don't see anyone complaining about the energy that gets poured into processors every single day to make them generate random numbers that are then used as secret keys in cryptography just so that users can securely shitpost on social media. All those advertisers are making a killing so all this activity must be moral, right?



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