Originally Posted by
plague311
Are you implying places like Amazon, or the banking industry do not use and discard massive, massive amounts of electronics, hardware components, servers, etc.? That's a fresh take.
No. Most people in the thread, including me, are talking about the environmental impact of the outrageous energy consumption.
Originally Posted by
plague311
My entire point, and I'm seriously beginning to wonder how it's being missed as I've said it explicitly, is that bitcoin isn't the only coin.
It's probably being missed because you aren't saying it explicitly or even implicitly. You only brought that in to this thread just today. And I don't see anyone complaining about the energy consumption of things that don't have problematic energy consumption.