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Re:Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge by GhostVII on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @12:05PM (#27196593)
Subsidize certain usages of electricity then. Or pay for the first x units of electricity for each household.
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Re:Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge by Nursie on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @12:13PM (#27196766)
Indeed, or make it punishingly expensive for some uses, which is tantamount to a ban.

That's the point - it's perfectly fine for a society to decide what energy can and can't be used for, because we don't live in a time when we have infinite, environmentally neutral power available to us.

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