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This is including industry like aluminum smelting which are basically running their own power plants to work. Aluminum is either used directly or indirectly for everything produced.

It's also including households, trains, data centers, etc. Things people actually use to live. Meanwhile with Bitcoin people are just rushing to calculate as much zeros as possible into their hash to append 1 MB of data to a chain.



In the same vein, think about all the infrastructure that was created just to get your comment on my screen.


I don't get your point? Crypto currencies are useless without a stable internet connection.




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