Electricity should have a variable price depending on who is buying it.
A home? A certain regulated price. Hospitals? A certain regulated price.
AI and Data Centers? A heavily taxed price.
Sweet, I asked a related question about ethically sourcing the electricity for the worthless computing cycles that could be used in less parasitic ways.
So about the cost of the energy for the imaginary money, bro?
I'm asking you Reid.
Do you believe bitcoin "mining" should have to account for how the electricity is generated?
Nothing about your sister or her choices. About the livable future her and her children may not have.
I don't believe real people believe in bitcoin.
It's not something a functional human has any business with.
It's a toy for VC bros and drug dealers and arms merchants and the worst profiteers possible.
It's the untraceable slush fund the CIA never had the coked up nerve to imagine.
There are people setting up gas generators and mining rigs next to natural gas wells to bypass the transmission infrastructure and evade environmental regulation. You can't blame that on the grid supply.
NatGas is a fossil fuel.
60% of electricity produced in the U.S. is generated using fossil fuel.
Bitcoin mining, like hospitals, schools, office buildings, you and your electronic lifestyle, emits zero CO₂.
Neither you, your friends, my sister, HVAC, washers, dryers, Bitcoin or the Internet should have to account for how electricity is generated.
Power plants decide how they choose to generate electricity.
The power plant you worked in decides how it generates electricity.
You, your friends, HVAC, washers, dryers, Bitcoin, the internet do not dictate how the power plant you worked for generated electricity.
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