bitcoin never had a use other than “will become valuable?”
many (myself included) believe this technology will probably be the only one that will develop fast enough to actually help with the climate crisis.
optimizing research and academia as well as environmental issues through information processing. people are excitedly talking about automated proof-checking and context finders that can sift through hundred of papers while you check your coffee. this stuff is good for science and science is good for environmentalism. maybe go after the politicians and companies that are not possibly going to be a benefit in the struggle against environmental collapse.
why do people keep relating it to bitcoin? because it uses GPUs? that’s literally the only connection.
somehow people have associated it with crypto and NFTs as if they are even mildly related. perhaps because those things are easier to hate, so why not associate them.