misk@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agoJust 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumptionwww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square222fedilinkarrow-up1996cross-posted to: environment@lemmy.worldhackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fanstechnology@lemmy.world
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minus-squarebaltakatei@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28·edit-210 months agoUltimately, mining should be banned from the surface of Earth. Let miners build orbital solar panel infrastructure close to the Sun where power is plentiful. See Bitcoin developer Peter Todd’s 2017-09-10 presentation on the subject (transcript). Edit: Fixed URL. Edit2; Add transcript link.
minus-squarePulptastic@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·10 months agoDon’t forget the opportunity cost of achieving orbital velocity. I’d say ban it but the cat is out of the bag. Tax it and provide alternatives and hopefully it will die.
minus-squareorrk@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agodude you can totally ban it, it’s not even difficult, you just don’t let them suck up infinite power
minus-squaremvirts@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·10 months agoMineral resource mining as well
minus-squarePipedLinkBot@feddit.rocksBlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·10 months agoHere is an alternative Piped link(s): Peter Todd’s 2017-09-10 presentation on the subject Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube. I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
Ultimately, mining should be banned from the surface of Earth. Let miners build orbital solar panel infrastructure close to the Sun where power is plentiful. See Bitcoin developer Peter Todd’s 2017-09-10 presentation on the subject (transcript).
Edit: Fixed URL. Edit2; Add transcript link.
Don’t forget the opportunity cost of achieving orbital velocity.
I’d say ban it but the cat is out of the bag. Tax it and provide alternatives and hopefully it will die.
dude you can totally ban it, it’s not even difficult, you just don’t let them suck up infinite power
Mineral resource mining as well
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
Peter Todd’s 2017-09-10 presentation on the subject
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.