"I dug a hole, GDP must go up"

"I wasted electricity, this ledger entry must be valuable"

More begging the question (assuming the thing you are supposedly arguing for).

If Bitcoins were valuable, the energy cost would be a constraint on their supply. If Bitcoins were not valuable, the energy cost would be just a further element of waste.

You might insist (rightly) that Bitcoins enjoy a market value above zero. So does the US dollar. So did Enron. So did FTX.

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So at what point & by what metric will you admit that the growing value of bitcoin as a result of volubtary adoption is real & that it has nothing to do with company stocks or fiat money?

I feel about Bitcoin and the US Dollar the way you feel about the US Dollar.

What would make you admit the US Dollar is in some way valuable or excellent?

If the US dollar stopped being printed, stopped falling in value, & the system ceased to be centrally controlled & could be audited by everyone at any time then I would have no problem with dollars. But the printing & inflation & centralization are basically the entire reason for its existence. It was literally designed to have a central bank & to be a tool to enslave people.