I don't know  if it means very much at all, because we crossed that bridge a long time ago. When we used physical tokens for #currency we only used energy once, but ever since we've had electronic payments, we've had this problem, long before bitcoin.

I remember seeing some arithmetic once showing that the biggest issues are exchanges, that run 24/7. It doesn't matter if they're #trading #BTC or #stocks, they're still wasting resources.

So in a sense this is a problem, but it's much older than #crypto