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Re:Ray Dalio says the government could ban bitcoin by solveit on Monday March 29, 2021 @05:21AM (#26619143)
Instead of banning whatever arbitrary thing the government deems to be using too much electricity, you could just tax carbon.
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Re:Ray Dalio says the government could ban bitcoin by ben_w on Monday March 29, 2021 @12:47PM (#26624599)
And tax imports from places which don’t tax carbon. Works for physical stuff, doesn’t work for digital stuff.
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Re:Ray Dalio says the government could ban bitcoin by solveit on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @03:31AM (#26632037)
Depends on the digital stuff. BTC in particular is incredibly traceable. Tax on conversion to fiat if source of BTC is a country that doesn't tax carbon. Any sensible anti money laundering system should be tracking all the relevant information anyway.
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