The Energy Costs of Cryptocurrency (www.theregreview.org)

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[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 8 points 2 weeks ago

Scholar proposes legal solutions to regulate cryptocurrency mining’s energy consumption in a climate-friendly way.

Here's a good solution: a total ban on crypto-mining

[-] Sibshops@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I feel like it will just make the miners move overseas. Maybe a tax makes sense if it is on the transactions themselves instead of on the mines.

this post was submitted on 19 Mar 2025

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