The Real Cost of Bitcoin Mining

📍 From the Book: Fools’ Digital GoldChapter 11 — The Electricity VampireMining myths, greenwashing, and Michael Saylor’s delusion.What happens when you build an entire financial system on wasting energy — and then pretend that’s a virtue?This episode covers:🔌 Proof-of-Work as a deliberate inefficiency🛢️ The fossil fuel reality behind Bitcoin’s energy mix🧛 Michael Saylor’s vampire logic and the PR illusion of the Bitcoin Mining Council🗑️ The massive electronic waste no one wants to talk about💥 Why Ethereum moved on — and Bitcoin refuses to🧠 The cult-like resistance to change, and what it revealsThis isn’t theory. It’s documented. Cited. Broken down step by step in the podcast.💬 Created via the LLM NotebookThis episode was drafted, dissected, and refined using my research notebook + large language model tools — part of the experiment behind Fools’ Digital Gold. Every stat, claim, and sentence was mapped, sourced, and questioned.