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Is Crypto a Big Scam?

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Is It the Block Chain That Makes Crypto So Energy Intensive?

i went to the largest crypto mine in america, just outside of my home town in austen. It's a former alkola aluminum smelting plant that is now devoted to mining bitcoin. In 20 21, bit coin used the energy equivalent of argentina,. And the greenhouse gas used to consume that electricity was more than offset the electric vehicle safix we had accumulated globally for that year. So it's ridiculous. You're running this tiny little programme, which actually has quite few users. A cryptos actiln, quite small in terms of people who are actually trying to transact in it, and the cost is massive, and you're not getting anything out of it.

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