HN is very Bitcoin and cryptocurrency in general-hostile so I'm not going to debate about how bad it is or isn't for the environment or set up a strawman with g

HN is very Bitcoin and cryptocurrency in general-hostile so I'm not going to debate about how bad it is or isn't for the environment or set up a strawman with gold mining. However, I'll say this: in a world where Bitcoin did not exist, I don't really think that power plant would have remained idle.