It’s easy and trendy to bash it, so people can depict themselves as wannabe critics and climate saviours without actually knowing anything they’re talking about.
Not only that, but without actually doing anything themselves. Reducing your own carbon footprint takes effort. You have to spend time sorting out your recycling, or composting your food waste, or walking more and driving less, or taking public transport and driving less, or changing your diet to eat less red meat, or god forbid going outside and exercising instead of watching TV. Much easier to just post online about how bitcoin is killing the planet while doing literally nothing to help.
The volatility factor hasn't. Bitcoin remains a risky investment due to its volatility, but also because of all the interconnected threats that come with it.
Sure, but there has been much less in the way of media attacks about its volatility this time round it seems. Maybe I'm just coming across such trash less frequently, but it seems to me it's difficult for any government to call bitcoin too volatile when they are printing trillions of dollars worth of fiat and have inflation rates in double figures.