03/27/2023
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"Bitcoin takes 500,000 times more energy to verify a payment compared with a Visa transaction."
"Senator Thune and I awhile back put a bill that allowed for this more and, of course, you run into classified issues and things like that, but again we've got to figure that out."
"I think we all know how bad this is and how scary this is."
"Cryptocurrency is increasingly a real concern also as a driver of global emissions, and this clearly is not sustainable."