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The destructive green fantasy of the Bitcoin fanatics (ft.com)
24 points by phpnode on April 22, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments


The referenced white paper reminds me a lot of similar writings on things such as Intelligent Design (just to pick an example): refuting involves stopping after nearly every sentence, or paragraph at a minimum. "Whoa, stop. Let's go back over those assumptions." Every...other...sentence. It's just a bunch of smart-sounding words strung together to look coherent until you actually read what was written.

IOW, I'm just parroting what TFA said. But the referenced paper is worth a skim, if only to keep one's BS meter calibrated.


Maybe you could provide a link to the referenced paper... I'd rather not register on FT.com just to read this article.



There was discussion about it here yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26892135





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