Hi,

For reasons too absurd to explain, this Wednesday I’m invited to a virtual “coffee break” with the speaker of one of Spain’s cryptoexchanges, https://bit2me.com/. The event is organized by Cinco Días, one of the main economic newspapers in the country.

I’m looking for a list of potential questions I might ask if I have the chance. I already have the basics (“how’s this different to a tulip”, “what super-legitimate uses, apart from paying for drugs, hitmen, sex trafficking, launder money, evade taxes and inflate bubbles”, “what about the electricity usage”, etc), and given that BBVA (Spain’s second largest bank) and Telefonica (Spain’s main telco) are investing money, I also want to ask how they’re handling the child porn they have in their servers.

If anyone has more suggestions, I’m all ears.

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    25 days ago

    What specific benefits does society get that offset or are net positives considering the dramatically outsized energy used by cryptocurrencies?

    Not interested in fiat currencies or reducing energy use. Only provable net benefits