Quote Originally Posted by DinahDemiurge View Post
To be fair, bitcoin and proof of work does not hurt the environment. In fact, it helps the environment by incentivizing development in cheaper, renewable energy(your profit goes down if you use dirty expensive energy by design). Second, NFTs are huge scams but NFTs have nothing to do with bitcoin or proof of work. Just to be clear.
Proof of work is still orders of magnitude more inefficient than even a Visa transaction. The criticism is still valid.