“An enormously larger amount of energy is spent keeping the lights on at the legacy banking institutions”
that may be, but legacy banking is the financial grease that makes the world economy go round, whereas crypto has repeatedly proven that it’s only real use case is as a gambling mechanism, a mechanism for defrauding punters out of their real money, and as a mechanism for terrorists and criminals to evade legacy banking financial controls ...
‘Legacy banking financial controls’ are how the Canadian government seized the assets of protestors.
Among Bitcoin’s advantages is not having this ‘legacy’.
Deficits are projected to be a minimum of 1 trillion dollars a year for the next decade.
The inability of the government to print Bitcoin and hand them out are why U.S. dollars will continue to decline in value relative to Bitcoin.