Re:Over 2 percent of the US's electricity generation now goe...
by lolc on Saturday February 03, 2024 @03:27AM
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Somehow I live in a different reality where my actions have consequences and I think about them. In that reality, free markets are just a tool. To be used when appropriate.
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Re:Over 2 percent of the US's electricity generation now goe...
by x86x87 on Saturday February 03, 2024 @11:56AM
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In the reality I live in money rules everything. I have goods I want to buy, I have money. I exchange money for goods. I am alergic to people that get on their high horses about what I am allowed to spend my money on.
Re:Over 2 percent of the US's electricity generation now goe...
by lolc on Saturday February 03, 2024 @06:03PM
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Bitcoin doesn't fall in the category of goods though. It's a service. If it stops operating, any "coins" it had allocated are just bits in the wind.
Now you may say you should be free to spend money on the horrendous energy bill of those miners, so that they allocate some coins to you. If there were no externalities, I'd agree. But since there are, I will argue against doing it. And we won't bridge that divide here I guess.