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Re:Green hackers around the world, let’s destroy Bitcoin by herewegoagain2 on Sunday February 07, 2021 @06:32AM (#26054302)
Interesting idea, but how exactly would you validate the CO2 emissions? If somebody mines a block and claims it only consumed x of CO2, how do you know it is true?

What seems possible is to check what miners mined a block, and externally verify their footprint. But I don't think there is a decentralized way to do it. An entity certifying "green miners" would be a centralized authority.

Re:Green hackers around the world, let’s destroy Bitcoin by heckerhut on Monday February 08, 2021 @07:30AM (#26063602)
Big miners would agree to audits of their resource consumption. There’s no other way.