...Bitcoin doesn't waste energy better consumed by other activities...Bitcoin consumes wasted energy better than other activities(because there aren't any)

Gold mining wastes 20 times the energy Bitcoin transforms and leaves nasty open pit mines and strip mines and usually in previous majestically beautiful natural resources.

Renewable energy projects can only expand beyond the level it's stagnating at using Bitcoin miners to purchase energy contracts from developers looking to expand renewable energy projects where consumers aren't built into the grid.

The worlds goal of major investment in renewable power and stores of value in communities in remote countries NECESSITATES Bitcoin mining or some uninvented "other" solution. (keep dreaming) yet be pragmatic dream of developing things already here; Bitcoin.

Bitcoin miners also convert vast swaths of sources of methane gas from oilfields into less harmful elements(though still bad) for the ozone. Methane is the second most abundant anthropogenic GHG after carbon dioxide (CO2), accounting for about 20 percent of global emissions. Methane is more than 25 times as potent as carbon dioxide at trapping heat in the atmosphere. https://www.epa.gov/gmi/importance-methane

One day our entire world will be run on renewable energy for all practical purposes and so yes our investment in Bitcoin will endure because it will help the world endure. I am thinking the discussion one day will be on THANK THE LORD BITCOIN was there when the world needed it to progress and develop responsibly. RETOOL