Nonsense.
Bitcoin's environmental benefits are well understood by grid operators around the world. The author's contention that "using renewable energy means someone else needs to use fossil fuel" is facile, since there is a well understood problem in the energy sector that a huge quantity of renewable energy gets wasted (solar in the middle of the day, or wind energy the night).
Harvard, being an academic institute, has probably done something that the author of this piece didn't do: read the academic research on Bitcoin mining.
Had the author done so, he would have understood that his arguments against Bitcoin are arcane, anchored in a conflation of energy use with environmental harm, while being equally ill informed about the widely documented ways that Bitcoin is benefitting humanity
source: https://t.co/WAxnGEmcku
There are 22 peer reviewed papers demonstrating Bitcoin mining's environmental benefits, which include accelerating the renewable energy transition, obviating the need for fossil fuel intensive gas peaker plants, stabilizing grids and mitigating methane.
source: https://t.co/cW8IeDtxQz
It is not "Bitcoin proponents" but a consensus of academics, grid operators, renewable energy generators and the media who have recognized these benefits.
I understand that the author is expressing his opinion, however do your quality control processes not extend to checking the author has a basic understanding of their domain, and making sure they are not spreading misinformation that has been debunked some time ago?
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