[vmception]

no?

if there was some successful state-sponsored or populist uprising against bitcoin’s energy then the energy use will decrease and bitcoin will continue functioning as normal

it just incentivizes more efficient hardware or lower yield for miners

the network can decrease in difficulty or have steady difficulty forever

the value that the network can support is still several orders of magnitude higher, and there are at a lot of gigawatts of energy to tap into before it reaches said maximum

[seaman1921]

you can't support <something negative> saying it would encourage people to develop ways to prevent it

[vmception]

you say that but that’s how electronics work

you are limiting one variable: power consumption, and people will have to work around that tighter than they already do

[leereeves]

If there's an uprising about Bitcoin's energy usage in the USA (just for example), neither the US gov nor people will be able to force miners in, say, China to use less energy.

But that might provide a good excuse for the government to regulate Bitcoin in whatever way they choose.