[Trias11]

To answer again - I don't think crypto mining is in any way a question of ethics.

No different from datacenters or cloud computing business.

[relaunched]

Crypto mining also bolsters an economy for criminals - I'd argue that speculation and criminal enterprises are the only two real use cases for cryptocurrency.

Anyone who thinks the environmental impact of crypto is the only ethical problem hasn't dug deep enough.

[coralreef]

Technology bolsters an economy for criminals. The internet created a whole new class of fraudsters, thieves, and extortionists.

They existed before the internet, after the internet, before crypto, and will continue to be around after crypto.