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Originally Posted by biosurfer1
The odd thing about him dropping bitcoin as payment is he just started accepting it back on March 24...has the energy use increased that much in 2 months, or did he just not care about it 2 months ago?
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I had this conversation with someone about this the other day. Elon's just a regular human like the rest of us, except he's involved with running SpaceX and Tesla, and a host of other things too. I'd be willing to bet he had no real concept of the amount of energy that Bitcoin mining takes up until he read some recent articles. I only realized this about six months ago. I thought when they said "it takes up a lot of energy", I thought it meant in your house on your electric bill. I had no idea that China had installed all of these mining operations and were using more energy than Sweden! I'm guessing that Elon didn't either.
-Wayne