Is Bitcoin a Good Thing?

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Fossil fuels are not going off line because instead, they've been converted to mining bit coin full time. And likewise the crypto currency goes, hey, wait, we could use flare gas. What they're doing its bringing bit coined mining rae to turn off methan wells, turning them onri to burn the methan a. Anybody who claims that bitcoin is green is some as basically claiming that a random shootings encourage bullet proof vast and so therefore it's a goodthing.

Crypto is crashing, which makes it the perfect time to ask whether blockchain technology is actually — you know — useful for anything. Computer scientist Nicholas Weaver joins Adam to discuss the inherent flaws in the technology, the shockingly slow state of innovation considering that the technology has been around for a decade, and what a better system for digital money might be. You can follow Nicholas on Twitter at @ncweaver. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.