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Re:Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index by A4ET8a8uTh0 on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @10:46AM (#26090699)
I mostly agree. As long as the price of energy is adequately priced, we should be able to make our own decisions on what amenities we need. You need a F150? Great, but be prepared to pay for its use. Naturally, the question immediately becomes, who decides what is adequate, which is not fun.

Incidentally, I am learning about bitcoin now since it is clearly becoming mainstream and it is related to my job. I am trying to build a miner ( I don't want one click zerohash solutions for variety of reasons ) on Ubuntu derivative ( POPos ) and now I am stuck troubleshooting pool connections. Anyone could recommend a reliable resource? I am starting to get really aggravated by having to google every single error encountered.

Re:Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index by Nursie on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @11:12AM (#26091058)
> As long as the price of energy is adequately priced.

It's not, and doing so is a hard problem, requiring a global solution, against the wishes of many interests and industries. It doesn't seem likely any time soon.