Re:Bitcoin backlash as ‘miners’ stress power grids in Centra...
by mark_edward on Monday May 28, 2018 @07:09AM
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It's just the opposite of targeting a business to pay less than other enterprises, which happens all the times as development incentives. I don't think it's any worse policy than that, it's just the flipside.
In this case, due to the fact that by taking the town's total usage up, they raise the costs for everyone in the town, you could also just see as internalizing an externality.
This would be different though, targeting a business to pay more than other commercial enterprises. That's a targeted disincentive, and if not structured generically and applied fairly it's bad policy. Seems hardly different than Comcast deliberately slowing Netflix down, not to extract revenue, but to put them out of business.