Re:Wyoming natural gas flared for cryptocurrency mining exem...
by aluminum96 on Friday September 24, 2021 @09:02PM
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Ban or heavily tax all proof-of-work cryptocurrency mining in the US. Bitcoin is causing major environmental impacts (both with emissions and e-waste), and better solutions exist, such as proof-of-stake. Society should not have to pay for the environmental externalities of bitcoin speculators.
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Re:Wyoming natural gas flared for cryptocurrency mining exem...
by Gosper on Friday September 24, 2021 @11:33PM
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> and better solutions exist, such as proof-of-stake
A far weaker security guarantee – when network security is the entire point – is certainly not better.
Bitcoin is irrelevant to your otherwise valid point that environmental externalities should indeed be accounted for in power generation.