Lately there has been a fashionable trend in public circles within the Internet to openly hit Bitcoin, due to the energy consumption that is needed to mine it according to them, and it is even a strongly rooted belief within the ecosystem, it is helping to destroy the planet.
Virtually every week traditional media attack Bitcoin mining, painting alarmist images of a burning planet due to its "wasteful" work proof design (PoW). The truth is that the reality of this mining process is much less strict than you think. Bitcoin advocates have been responding to criticism and coups in the last year, with a new study that highlights the many positive aspects of the work test method.
If we look for the word "Bitcoin", within any forum, blog or social circle, we will surely find articles that compare the energy consumption of Bitcoin Core with that of small countries such as Ireland or Iceland, and the spent energy of Bitcoin surpasses those of these countries. But, actually these invoices of energies that appear in the articles, overestimate the consumption of the BTC mining in at least a third, but even if you were to say this, you would lose the point, because the reality is that yes, BTC uses a lot Energy.
"Gravity" is the first part of a four-part discourse on the expired and harmful working test model used by BTC.