Bitcoin Is Unsustainable 6/29/2015 - I almost understand

[CoinCarrie]

Here is the article I am sure everyone has seen.  It references a friend of this board as well:

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/bitcoin-is-unsustainable


If I wanted to better understand what this article was talking about where should I start?  There are so many self proclaimed experts, forums, books, articles and "papers" it just confuses me.  Google gives me millions of hits.  Are there 2-3 people (or more) to follow here or on other sites?  Is there anyone specific on youtube I should follow?  There are a mind numbing amount of posts on this forum alone.  I do not think I ever want to mine.  However, I want to understand it and bit coin as technical as possible through my own effort & 'scope'.  Is there a great class I could take?  The year is 2016 - what are the top 5 places I should start?  I will happily take more than 5 suggestions.  However, I know your time is worth money and value it.  So, I will take whatever you offer.

Is this article true, the one above?  Or have a year later, close to the day we proved it false?

[vapourminer]

welcome to bitcointalk.

i too interested in well written, knowledgeable stuff to follow. the signal to noise ratio for btc is near infinity:1 here on bitcointalk and not much better in the net in general.

my one comment on the above article (as a nobody) is i have read here that some btc mines are built near hydo power plants. and they can use excess power capacity that would otherwise be wasted. here is a good thread to read:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1072474

its mainly about one mine in particular and not about sustainability, just about mining farms in general.

[CoinCarrie]

Ya, I absolutely saw that - that was "our friend" the article mentioned.  I will have to take a look at that.  But it is 30 + pages long.  Just so much information.  I know there has to be some basic stuff I should look at.  But, ready or not - diving in