| Yes, it's in beta. The expectation of moving later this year has held for several years. > BTC mining is creating new business models for renewable energy It's also helping bring fossil-fuel power plants back online in the US, purely to service cryptocurrency - https://www.bbc.com/news/av/technology-58020010 AFAICT there are others in the works too. > BTC uses less energy than many other activities Pointing desperately at other things doesn't change the argument at all. > Finally, if energy is one of your biggest expenses, you're economically incentivized to reduce those costs as much as possible. So? This doesn't make bitcoin clean? There is already huge demand for clean power in this world, adding to it with PoW systems doesn't actually help, and as we can see by the power plant and by the article linked above about a fall in renewable use in BTC, we're not in the "Bitcoin has incentivised green energy and helped the world get cleaner" stage, we're in the "Bitcoin is adding pressure to an already over-pressurised system and is making the problem worse at a critical time" phase. Even your own linked article is sub-headed "Cryptocurrency mining has the potential to address the obstacles to more widely adopting renewable energy" - not that it has or is, but that it could. These pseudo-intellectual economic arguments about "helping the world move to renewables" are tripe. |