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yeah plus those coins were already mined. not using them now after the carbons already been spent is even more of a FU to the planet
edit: admittedly that is ignoring the cost of future consensus
Sending the money is actually what produces more money, so using it has the same fingerprint
not quite sure what you mean? the carbon footprint of a transaction is negligible in comparison to mining no?
Mining is the process of creating new coins, but these new coins are created when you add a transaction to the public ledger. You cannot dissociate mining from transactions, mining is in fact how the networks's keepers are paid for maintaining the network and processing transactions. It is this way because it was supposed that BitCoin transactions would be free, but now you are almost always required to pay a fee to get miners interested in adding you to the block