The discussion on the energy matrix has increasingly become the center of attention: for the ecological issue, so much touted over the last thirty years, but also for the geopolitical issues involved and the pressures on currencies and commodities.
When Erlon Musk, as well as others, truly demonstrate the exponential increase in energy expenditure for bitcoin mining, for example, they demonstrate a way of thinking, a method that, hidden in the shadows, hardly appears.

Some definitions are necessary before exposing the idea of ​​this article: (maybe they can be revealing, most of the time they are terrifying truths - no conspiracy theory, just simple analysis of the historical facts that make up the society we know today.)

- Concept of ecology: just as ecological balance is far removed from the concept of creatures being friends and more like blood splattering everywhere, the concept of "right right" is not always observed in the long term. they normally serve to meet demands existing at that historical moment.
Not least because the notion of historical record and statistical analysis, at a global level, demands a lot of data and a lot of information exchange. This only began to happen effectively after the 1980s, motivated by the issue of CFC gases and the hole in the ozone layer.
An extremely profound and necessary example to understand how often the concept of "ecologically correct" and "ecologically sustainable" can throw the world in a darker place is the refining of gasoline.
At the end of the 19th century, with the improvement of the productive means, with the increase in production, the search for new energy matrix resources became evident.
The scientific advances of the 19th century, in all areas of knowledge, would make the world wonderful, from a communicative point of view, in the 20th century. However, the pressures on mineral resources increased exponentially.
Gasoline was the waste from the refining of kerosene and lubricating oils at the beginning of the 20th century. At that time, electric cars already existed that competed with cars for internal explosion.
As the batteries were big and their production technology was still very rudimentary and dangerous (yes, batteries explode!) the car with an explosion engine, successor to the steam car, powered by water and kerosene, won.
And then came the "brilliantly green" idea: Gasoline was garbage, junk, so let's recycle this garbage to make it sustainable and still blow up cars. Conclusion: today all heavy oil refining is oriented towards the production of gasoline (to know, there are two types of oil, one is used in machinery oils, waterproofing, paints, among others and the other for the production of fuels and naphtha).
But notice, from garbage to absolute reign! Playing makes humanity dependent on oil. For an imaginative exercise: we could be 100 years ago riding an electric car were it not for the ecological vision.
In this way of thinking, the lack of oil has nothing to do with the simple pollution of the atmosphere, it has to be that if the oil runs out, the next day there will no longer be any way to make clothes, food, paint, waterproofing, plastic, lubricants, semiconductors and, guess what, electric power (transformers, for example, depend on varnish)!

- Concept of sustainability: concept surrounded by a mystical aura that has gained strength in recent years: everything that has the term sustainable gains economic strength, gains pomp and circumstance to the detriment of non-sustainable products. But by the very concept of sustainability, the entire chain that makes up a given product must use non-finite inputs. Let's think about solar panels: they use lithium, or lead acid in their batteries, they use silicon on the plates (which cannot be recycled!), ie, it could be that solar panels are alternatives that are less harmful to nature... but by far they are not sustainable.

- Concept of recycling: recycling processes, by analogy to those that say that cryptocurrencies use a lot of energy, spend as much to recycle finite resources, as they use a lot of electricity and lubricants.

If we consider all processes in terms of their carbon footprint, we will see, for example, that a hydroelectric plant mitigates environmental damage in 40 years, which makes this type of source sustainable. This sustainable yes.

If we compare a biomass thermoelectric plant, which throws carbon into the atmosphere, and an electrical panel, which in theory does not emit direct carbon, of the same power, we see that the biomass thermoelectric plant is 50% more efficient in not harming nature than the set of solar panels.

In short, all this makes up, directly or indirectly, the cost of generating electricity in general. According to the hashrate website, 26% of all world mining is in China.

The cost of kwh, electricity, in China is 12% lower than in Europe, for example. In terms of crypto-currency, Europe produces 14% of global mining.

So Chinese mining production is ten times more efficient and therefore ten times more "sustainable" than in Europe, for example.

The United States, for comparative purposes, is responsible for 13% of mining, and the rest is divided into more than 30 countries, and the energy cost is strongly linked to the price of oil.

First thought: does the search for a new energy matrix have more to do with forests or with the inevitable unsustainability of the price linked to oil and dollars?

Achina, in the last week, has been banning local mining, so in the medium term, currency shortages will make the price demand effect very favorable to those who continue to have bitcoin.

The problem is that China, alone, populationally, maintains, or maintained much of the backing of currencies.

China defies free market logic! China is going in the opposite direction of the world, while trending.

And everything to create your own cryto coin and make the mining of your own cryto coin. The question arises: could a cryptocurrency pegged to a heavily controlling country, in an environment still controlled by free currency, could become the new dollar of cryptocurrencies? And by doing that, would you be able to dictate financial rules just by stopping the virtual mines?

Time will tell!