10 sats \ 1 reply \ @carlosfandango 30 Aug 2023 \ parent \ on: Does Bitcoin have any negative tradeoffs or is it just all positive? bitcoin
Absolutely - supplemental energy to towns etc from their mining I think?
Estimates are that 1 billion people do not have access to electricity.
Indeed, without electricity and communication access, Bitcoin is useless.
Yes, there are offline solutions, but also those, some time needs access to "unload" online what they charged offline. and is not so handy.
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