https://twitter.com/BTCNatureFund/status/1387784998460219394
It's cool to see "we the working class resent being looked down on by you wealthy coastal liberal elites" used by rich libertarian dorks to defend their expensive computing clusters. Like bitcoin nerds don't even have the faux working class aesthetic, like at least buy a pickup truck and wear some overalls when you say this shit.
I think that's the total for the world. I tried to do some googling, and it's hard to get a reliable estimate on a per bitcoin mined energy usage, but even 6 years ago (when mining them was easier than now) 1 bitcoin was the equivalent of running a 65 inch TV at peak brightness for 4 months straight.
That's still pretty bad. These fuckers have no room to talk with their monopoly money pollution machines.
Yeah, I'd definitely argue that burning my retinas by watching Stargate Atlantis on repeat at peak brightness for months on end is a better use of resources than bitcoin mining.