That’s like the same concern as waiting in the store for two weeks while the bank transfers cash via armored truck to the store’s bank. That’s not how anything works.

Mastercard and Visa have been threatening to shut down online platforms they don’t like, recently they blacklisted a judge from the international justice court for ruling against Israel. And hey, if we suddenly want to release the IBM source code and banking secrets which are the backbone of almost all modern transactions, I’m all for it.

The only reason to use BTC is its adoption rate being so much higher than any other cryptocurrency.

Also, the majority of power wasted is due to competing miners racing to mine the same blocks, which is presumably about to end given the 21M coin limit and the 20M mined so far in 2026.

But let’s not pretend to care about the power for digital transactions when we as a collective race are spending terawatts generating AI Porn and writing worthless inaccurate articles.