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It’s a value judgement people are making about something they don’t like and justifying it with this emissions thing. Gambling isn’t useful either, what are th
by erentz 7y ago
It’s a value judgement people are making about something they don’t like and justifying it with this emissions thing.
Gambling isn’t useful either, what are the megatons of CO2 emitted by casinos? Movie theaters are pretty useless, how much is spent air conditioning those. I don’t like that massive data centers are processing images so people can have silly AR videos. We shouldn’t have that. Etc.
We can’t (and probably shouldn’t) dictate what people do with electricity once it’s on the grid and so articles like this are just baiting peoples value judgements without contributing to solving the problem: If we don’t like that we have polluting coal and gas plants pumping CO2 into the atmosphere we should take action to fix that, not try to pick and choose how people use electricity to make ourselves feel better.
- ForHackernews 7y agoGambling is frequently banned because of its negative externalities. Are you sure this is the analogy you want to pick to defend bitcoin? You are correct that the ecological damage from bitcoin is only one of the things that makes it harmful. It happens to be my primary objection to proof-of-work cryptocurrency because I'm very worried about climate change, but I'm also not a huge fan of tax evasion or ransomware, either.