Hearn: The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment

All of the US banking transactions can be run from a single fairly small DC.

> Also keep in mind the running of an entire (police)? state that ultimately guarantees the value of its currency.
Will I be able to come to your home and cut off your fingers one by one until you give me all of your bitcoin wallets once the world sees the light and switches?

You need to take into account manufacturing emissions when making this argument regardless if it's a car (electric or not) or the components that make up your data center wires etc since everything is only as green as the juice it's running or manufactured on.

To achieve "greener world" means that you need to move manufacturing plants to the nations that provide that "green energy" ( Iceland, Paraguay, Sweden, France etc ) at the expense of re-allocation cost for companies, higher manufacture prices ( which results in higher prices on the consumer market which is opposite to what that market demands/wants ) and the economy collapses of the nations that already host and run those manufacturing plants or invent or find alternative means to produce that green energy for those nations that currently cannot as well as to having to implement that solution nation wide ( implementation which is measured in decades, the larger the nation the longer it takes and as you know the world still have countries running on 110v ).

Instead of actually dealing with the issue "nations" came up with energy/carbon trading scheme to make it look like those nations are actually doing anything about when in fact they are not ( these are workaround means to circumvent ) and the end result remains the same.

If we put aside all the man made problems that affects the planet and man kind ( pollution, hunger, religions, wars etc ) and the steps which are required to solve those problems ( which is not something that people, nations and industry's are truly willing to due, heck people cannot even agree on standardization which just highlights the fact the people dont posses the mental capability at this point in time to deal with issues on much larger and global scale ) and focus only on the "emission" problem the fact is that a single volcanic eruption here in Iceland produced on average three times the amount of sulphur dioxide ( which for example is produced by burning fossil fuels and other industrial processes such as smelting ) emitted in the six-month period it was active to all of Europe's human-made sulphur dioxide for that same period of time [1]. ( we have roughly 1500 active volcano's world wide ) so it's debatable how much affect the human produced sulphur dioxide affects the planet's ecosystem on global scale rendering any "green" or rather "Let's pretend we are green and are doing anything about it" argument moot.

1. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2015JD023638/a...