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by joshspankit 1891 days ago
I think you’ve stumbled on The Solution.

Like, in reality miners will use whatever power is cheapest, and solar is currently the cheapest. They are also extremely* agile and can shift location/power source in a handful of days which leads me to believe that they are currently driving adoption of solar, BUT: with miners being framed as The Big Threat, we might be able to finally use that perception as a crowbar to remove incentives for energy sources that pollute and even impose heavy taxes on those sources and end up completely digging out the oil/coal industries.

Win Win Win as far as I’m concerned.

*Apparently unless you can buy an entire power plant