Quote from: Silberman on January 12, 2018, 11:55:53 PM

Quote from: jevee on January 12, 2018, 04:48:12 PM

What do you think about the facts about bitcoin and pollution? can this disadvantage repel future investors? are there any solutions for this problem?

A significant amount of miners in China use power that is generated from hydro plants, so bitcoin is not as polluting as people think, while hydro plants require to change the landscape in order to produce energy once all that is done is one of the cleanest forms of creating electricity so to make this assertion that bitcoin is polluting the planet seems to an exaggeration.

Whatever energy you use for bitcoin is energy that you cannot dedicate to other uses. So even that energy is renewable, it means that non renewable energy has to be consumed for other uses. It would only work if every bitcoin farm invested to have their own clean power supply.