[chroem-]

There are a lot more gamers than there are bitcoin miners, so it ends up balancing out:

https://www.wired.com/story/xbox-playstation-cloud-gaming-en... https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2018/11/video-games-...

We need to ban gaming if we want to solve the climate emergency.

[therouwboat]

That motherjones article says pc gaming consumes 75 TWh per year while just bitcoin is estimated to use 120 TWh.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56012952

[chroem-]

Less than a factor of two difference is "approximately the same order of magnitude", as I originally stated.

[smolder]

Yes and we should also ban televisions and automobiles and espresso machines and loud music and nighttime lighting and virtual reality and air conditioning a room to below 74 degrees.