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Re:Kosovo bans cryptocurrency mining to save electricity by ohgodplsno on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @10:22AM (#29810027)
You're the guy that doesn't get invited to parties because you keep eating all the food because it's free, aren't you ?

All those subsidies are given under the expectation that people will behave reasonably and only use what is necessary, because it gets the country running. It's taking a hit so that your citizens can live and thrive. When you suddenly have a bunch of people running thousands of GPU for magic internet money, that is not a reasonable use of it.

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Re:Kosovo bans cryptocurrency mining to save electricity by ahtihn on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @11:47AM (#29811346)
Why so personal and agressive?

In my opinion it would be better to have normal energy prices and simply redistribute the money. At least it would give an incentive to use energy more efficiently

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