Even if we accept their estimates -- and of course, given that this coming from a mining company, we wouldn't have the slightest reason not to! --<p>It is straight up dishonest to attempt to draw a comparison based solely on total <i>network</i> footprint. As the authors of the "whitepaper" are fully aware, what everyone is concerned with is the alarmingly high BTC footprint per <i>transaction</i>. In addition to who exactly benefits from all this insane footprint generation, at the end of the day.