Because quite often the inefficiency of bitcoin is used to detract from all cryptocurrencies. The same way all game consoles are nintendos. If this was truly a problem people gave a shit about they’d be praising proof of stake currencies instead.

I just don’t get the point of the article. It’s not a trade off where every transaction launches a swimming pool into the sun. The water is used to power electricity and cool the electronics. No ones freaking out about millions of watercooled PCs across the globe or Niagara Falls being used to power strip clubs or all the water all the data centres use to store my NFTs in S3.

Nestle and Coke are literally destroying water tables and exterminating villages by buying the upstream water rights and removing that water from the area or “selling” it back to people who can’t afford it.

If you actually care, do something like switching to ethereum, cutting back on beef, and protesting Nestle and Coke. But don’t protest Coke because they’ll just murder you.