There is some wisdom there, but leading with "obscene amounts of carbon" outs this guy as a run of the mill reddit pseudo intellectual.
You're mocking him for having a functional understanding of Bitcoin when you do not. "Burning obscene amounts of carbon is bad" isn't a left wing talking point, it's the foundation on which Bitcoin is built. Unlike the gold standard which is backed by holding valuable goods in escrow, proof of work cryptocurrency is backed by destruction. If someone genuinely does not believe the cost of processing a Bitcoin transaction is nearly prohibitive they should not trust Bitcoin, because that cost is supposed to be the thing keeping the ledger secure.
I know how Bitcoin works. Did you think I thought he just conjured a statement about carbon footprint out of nowhere for no reason? The point is that only leftoids and retards use that as an opening salvo to shit on it, because if you wanted to shit on it there are other ways to go about it. He is very much framing it in an "I'm a leftoid that wants to shit on bitcoin" sort of way. The wording gives it away; a normal person would make essentially the same point with different wordings.
You're mocking him for having a functional understanding of Bitcoin when you do not. "Burning obscene amounts of carbon is bad" isn't a left wing talking point, it's the foundation on which Bitcoin is built. Unlike the gold standard which is backed by holding valuable goods in escrow, proof of work cryptocurrency is backed by destruction. If someone genuinely does not believe the cost of processing a Bitcoin transaction is nearly prohibitive they should not trust Bitcoin, because that cost is supposed to be the thing keeping the ledger secure.
I know how Bitcoin works. Did you think I thought he just conjured a statement about carbon footprint out of nowhere for no reason? The point is that only leftoids and retards use that as an opening salvo to shit on it, because if you wanted to shit on it there are other ways to go about it. He is very much framing it in an "I'm a leftoid that wants to shit on bitcoin" sort of way. The wording gives it away; a normal person would make essentially the same point with different wordings.