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jason1637 said:
SvennoJ said:

Nope:

According to independent researchers Max Krause and Thabet Tolaymat, it takes 17 megajoules (MJ) of computer power to generate $1 of bitcoin and only 5MJ of energy to produce $1 of gold. In fact, bitcoin mining is nearly 15X more carbon intensive than mining an equivalent amount of gold (in dollar terms).

Yeah I said the banking and gold industry. Include banking into that and physical currency is way more harmful than digital currency.

We have digital currency already though. It's called internet baking. I don't use much physical money anymore, almost all my spending is done with credit cards and when the month ends I just pay it with my digital banking account