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Anna

It is true that mining and staking activities consume energy. Bitcoin used PoW consensus mechanisms, which needed a lot of energy resource. To counter that, we can opt for Ethereum, a more scalable blockchain, that works on PoS mechanism, which is energy-efficient.
Even Bitcoin is devising new alternatives and still rising high. In the long run, crypto is actually energy-saving and more sustainable than fiat currencies.