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by dd36 1864 days ago
Communities tend to ban harmful things.
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“communities”.

it’s all fun and games until I ban something you rely on for your livelihood

I’m sure businesses that rely on dumping arsenic into the local lake don’t like having their livelihood threatened either. Property rights matter. Right now the market is broken.
consuming energy (and paying for it) is not even the same species with dumping toxic chemicals
Burning coal literally dumps arsenic into the environment.

And to do so for speculative fun is ridiculous.

i have some bad news for you when it comes to how lot of electricity is generated.

Also, how do you decide which computing is good and which computing is bad?

You do, do you? I suppose it is of the variety where miners magically only use clean energy?

Kill the value of POW as a store of money and see how much of that computing still happens. Then you’ll know how useful it is.