3 ms·
Heat pollution is something to worry about, as is the material construction of electronics/chipsets due to crypto mining. However, one side effect of this is t
by coralreef 8y ago
Heat pollution is something to worry about, as is the material construction of electronics/chipsets due to crypto mining.
However, one side effect of this is that increasing demand for clean, cheap electricity is a good thing. Miners are basically subsidizing the development of eco-friendly energy infrastructure which ends up being good for everyone.
- jacobush 8y agoWhich MIGHT end up being good for everyone.
- coralreef 8y agoWhat would be the downsides of cheap, eco-friendly energy?
- LeoPanthera 8y agoHigh demand for electricity may increase the price of energy as a whole, which may make the production of electricity from fossil fuels profitable enough to expand.
- sirsar 8y agoSee Jevons paradox, where increasing coal-efficiency counterintuitively increased coal usage and pollution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
- jacobush 8y agoWhat are you going to use it for, if it's all dumped into the jaws of Mammon, quite literally, just to uphold status quo. (Mining.)