Picture this: the air’s thicker, the lights flicker, and the hum of your fridge is replaced by the silence of decay. That’s the sound of progress, right? Or so they’ll tell you.
Progress built on the back of gas, oil, and coal, choking the earth so some idiot can stare at a digital wallet and call himself a genius.
The cost of this madness?
Everything. Energy prices explode, taking down your paycheck, your savings, your life. You thought inflation was bad before? Try buying bread when the baker can’t keep his ovens running because mining farms ate the grid alive. Whole towns go dark, hospitals ration power, and factories shut their doors. But hey, at least you’ve got your BTC, right? Right? The value of nothing, built on the cost of everything.
And the oil barons, the gas tycoons—they’ll love this. They’ll pump more, drill more, sell more, laughing as you cough on the fumes of their success. Renewable energy? Forget it. The world won’t have time for windmills when the machines demand coal and diesel to keep their golden goose alive. Carbon footprints the size of continents, but sure, call it innovation. Call it freedom. Call it whatever the hell you want, but don’t call it sustainable.
This isn’t economics; it’s a hostage situation. The world becomes addicted to the very thing that’s killing it, and for what? So a handful of people can say they were there when BTC hit a million. The rest of us pay the price. We pay in rolling blackouts, in empty wallets, in food rotting on powerless shelves. We pay in the collapse of industries that actually matter while miners suck the life out of the grid like vampires on a binge.
You think this is a future worth fighting for? You think the world’s going to let it happen?
Wake up.
No government, no industry, no ordinary person is going to stand by while the cost of living quadruples and the planet burns. BTC won’t get to a million because the world will collapse under its weight long before that. And when it does, when the lights go out for good, don’t say you weren’t warned. You bet the house on a fantasy, and now there’s no one left to clean up the ashes.
You think BTC is decentralised? You think governments can’t stop it? Sit down and let me spell it out for you. This isn’t some untouchable, ethereal system floating above the laws of reality. It’s grounded in one simple, undeniable fact: power. Electricity. Those big data centres running the miners, guzzling megawatts like there’s no tomorrow, are as centralised as they come. They’re not hidden; they’re not invincible. They’re big, loud targets just waiting for someone to flip the switch.
Governments don’t need to ban BTC. They don’t need to outlaw wallets or regulate exchanges into oblivion. All they need to do is cut the cord. No power, no miners. No miners, no blocks. No blocks, no BTC. You think those mining farms in Texas or Kazakhstan are going to stand up against government scrutiny? A few phone calls, a bit of legislation, and those lights go out faster than your over-leveraged position in a bear market.
And don’t start with that nonsense about “the little guy mining at home.” That ship sailed a decade ago. BTC mining isn’t decentralised—it’s a corporate game, run by entities with enough capital to make it worth their while. The energy draw alone proves it. You think your government isn’t watching those power grids spike? You think they don’t know exactly where that electricity is going? If you’re too stupid to see that, you’re too stupid to understand any of this.
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S. Tominaga AKA CSW
Jan 11, 2025
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1877880001149948033.html
https://t.me/S_Tominaga/2526
Progress built on the back of gas, oil, and coal, choking the earth so some idiot can stare at a digital wallet and call himself a genius.
The cost of this madness?
Everything. Energy prices explode, taking down your paycheck, your savings, your life. You thought inflation was bad before? Try buying bread when the baker can’t keep his ovens running because mining farms ate the grid alive. Whole towns go dark, hospitals ration power, and factories shut their doors. But hey, at least you’ve got your BTC, right? Right? The value of nothing, built on the cost of everything.
And the oil barons, the gas tycoons—they’ll love this. They’ll pump more, drill more, sell more, laughing as you cough on the fumes of their success. Renewable energy? Forget it. The world won’t have time for windmills when the machines demand coal and diesel to keep their golden goose alive. Carbon footprints the size of continents, but sure, call it innovation. Call it freedom. Call it whatever the hell you want, but don’t call it sustainable.
This isn’t economics; it’s a hostage situation. The world becomes addicted to the very thing that’s killing it, and for what? So a handful of people can say they were there when BTC hit a million. The rest of us pay the price. We pay in rolling blackouts, in empty wallets, in food rotting on powerless shelves. We pay in the collapse of industries that actually matter while miners suck the life out of the grid like vampires on a binge.
You think this is a future worth fighting for? You think the world’s going to let it happen?
Wake up.
No government, no industry, no ordinary person is going to stand by while the cost of living quadruples and the planet burns. BTC won’t get to a million because the world will collapse under its weight long before that. And when it does, when the lights go out for good, don’t say you weren’t warned. You bet the house on a fantasy, and now there’s no one left to clean up the ashes.
You think BTC is decentralised? You think governments can’t stop it? Sit down and let me spell it out for you. This isn’t some untouchable, ethereal system floating above the laws of reality. It’s grounded in one simple, undeniable fact: power. Electricity. Those big data centres running the miners, guzzling megawatts like there’s no tomorrow, are as centralised as they come. They’re not hidden; they’re not invincible. They’re big, loud targets just waiting for someone to flip the switch.
Governments don’t need to ban BTC. They don’t need to outlaw wallets or regulate exchanges into oblivion. All they need to do is cut the cord. No power, no miners. No miners, no blocks. No blocks, no BTC. You think those mining farms in Texas or Kazakhstan are going to stand up against government scrutiny? A few phone calls, a bit of legislation, and those lights go out faster than your over-leveraged position in a bear market.
And don’t start with that nonsense about “the little guy mining at home.” That ship sailed a decade ago. BTC mining isn’t decentralised—it’s a corporate game, run by entities with enough capital to make it worth their while. The energy draw alone proves it. You think your government isn’t watching those power grids spike? You think they don’t know exactly where that electricity is going? If you’re too stupid to see that, you’re too stupid to understand any of this.
2/3
S. Tominaga AKA CSW
Jan 11, 2025
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1877880001149948033.html
https://t.me/S_Tominaga/2526
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