To these critics, Bitcoin is a totally useless, degenerate system that will end up consuming all energy on the planet in 18 months if we don’t stop it right now.
He posits an absurdist example of what a critic would say pretending that it's an authentic criticism. Obama would do this all the time:
Republican say it's best if we just let these children starve to death because that's what the Founders wanted
Or some equally ridiculous characterization of what his critics believe.
fair enough....but on Twitter, I’ve seen many comments like that that are as ridiculous as the straw man he sets up.
there is a LOT of alarmism over BTC’s energy consumption...a LOT...which shouldn’t surprise us, because as we all know, climate alarmists are hysterical jihadists