What does the amount of money have to do with anything? If someone found a way to reduce the $20 trillion US deficit by 0.09%, and someone said that it’s not significant, would it rate the snarky “well, then send me a check for that amount”?

Would you optimize a program by refactoring a function that used 0.09% of the execution time?

this is it, we reached peak strawman

You are the one moving the goalposts because the article is about climate change.

“Bill Gates has committed his fortune to moving the world beyond fossil fuels and mitigating climate change”

Back to my original comment: “You derailed the entire point of the article by taking a tangent into a completely different...”

If we move beyond fossil fuels and use 100% wind, solar, and nuclear energy, for example, does the electricity use for Bitcoin matter?

Actually there is a great article by Nick Szabo on the social cost of organizing by third party that Bitcoin replaces - if you take the energy it costs to run governments/banks with everything they utilize in terms of energy cost then that's what Bitcoin tries to 'free up' also in terms of energy usage (and still comes out ahead)