@haverholm bored apes consumed possibly about a thousand tons of fossil fuel, based on the amount of ethereum expended to date. but it's impossible to say how that compares to normal financial transactions in dollars because I don't think anyone has ever done a comprehensive analysis of how much carbon it takes to operate the US dollar and the credit card/bank system. comparison is difficult because with ethereum every transaction requires the entire network to be secure so you would have to do some kind of amortization calculation.