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Bitcoin's total value being 2 trillion dollars is not the same thing whatsoever as bitcoin being responsible for 2 trillion dollars of GDP. There is no "merit" here.

We can have $2 trillion in GDP with paper money, too, and that uses 0% of the world's power.



To be fair, paper money requires banks & bank employees, bullet-proof transportation trucks, government regulation, anti-counterfeit research & technology, and perhaps more.


Whataboutism is a form of propaganda, not of fairness.


Comparing the consequences of alternative solutions to a problem is not whataboutism.


Not 0% if you count the resources required to enforce that paper money.




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