A closer look
Bitcoin mining operations currently consume more electrical energy on an annual basis than entire industrialized nations, including Argentina and the Netherlands; millions of specialized computers run endlessly in massive, air-conditioned warehouses around the world, burning through fossil fuels and straining power grids just to solve pointless cryptographic math puzzles, with all of this staggering environmental devastation and raw energy expenditure existing solely to maintain a decentralized ledger for a volatile digital currency that is mostly used for speculative gambling and buying illicit substances on the dark web, meaning we are quite literally boiling the oceans and accelerating climate change just so tech bros can trade links to ugly monkey cartoons and pretend they are financial visionaries
