Quote from: LoyceV on September 30, 2022, 03:25:55 PM

That brings me back to my previous point: like virtually any other industry, Bitcoin's energy consumption depends on it's profitability. Gold mining is comparable: if there's more money to be made, gold miners will burn more diesel to get the gold. If excavators become more energy efficient, they'll buy more excavators.

Yes, however:

Bitcoin mining incentivizes for energy efficiency more than gold mining does. Besides technological efficiency, mining bitcoins incentivizes transition to 100% renewable energy. For instance, excess in use of wind power can be used instead of being wasted, which leads me to the second difference.
Bitcoins are everywhere and nowhere. The bitcoin mining infrastructure is flexible, mobile, and can lead to more efficient functioning over all. This is necessary if we want to utilize renewable energy properly.

Quote from: NotATether on Today at 09:11:56 AM

I added some more substance to the first card (and changed the title of the second one). Check it out, and if you have any other suggestions, just post them here

Let me see.

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There is no correlation between Bitcoin price and its energy use

That sounds a little absolute. Little fluctuations might not have a direct affectation to the energy required, but if the price skyrocketed I'm sure we'd observe something similar to the difficulty as well.

The rest of your text is fine. Whoever refuses to accept it is just biased, but I'm looking forward to have some talk with these people. Maybe we could invite them over for discussion in some mailing list? Bitcointalk isn't the place. Such discussions must be made in a neutral environment.