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Bonus: Nic Carter Article on WH Report on Bitcoin Mining Climate Impact

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Bitcoin Miners' Future Energy Demands Aren't Calculated by the OSTP

The OSTP house is willing to repeat debris's unscientific fever dreams about Bitcoin's emissions with no issues whatsoever. But they oddly draw the line at projecting future energy usage. Refusing to propose any model at all helps the OSTP's anti-crypto case because it leaves future crypto energy demands wide open to the imagination. Most people, if not guided by reasonable models around future usage, tend to panic relying on linear extrapolations of prior energy usage growth into the future.

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