Avocado consumption per capita

As Americans have eaten more avocados, Bitcoin mining has consumed more electricity worldwide, a correlation of 0.984 across six data points that connects brunch culture to cryptocurrency with the blockchain confidence of a scatter plot that has found the intersection of guacamole and proof-of-work. The avocado is mashed, the hash is computed, and both activities consume resources that older generations find baffling. The toast is served, the block is mined, and the chart notes both with the generational confidence of a coefficient that has a hardware wallet and a farmers market tote bag.

Avocado consumption grew to over 8 pounds per capita. Bitcoin mining electricity consumption grew from about 30 TWh to over 120 TWh between 2017 and 2022. Six data points, both exponential growth curves. Both trends serve the same generational moment: avocados as the food of millennial identity, Bitcoin as the investment of millennial skepticism toward traditional finance. The shared variable is a generation with disposable income and unconventional consumption habits, expressed through food and finance simultaneously.

Six data points of avocados and Bitcoin mining is barely a dataset but perfectly captures the 2010s–2020s zeitgeist: a generation that consumes artisanal food and digital currency with equal conviction, spends real money on both, and has been told it could afford a house if it stopped doing either. The toast is served. The block is mined. The down payment remains imaginary.