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Okay they also have: lobbying (as the tech industry does) paying off government officials to use their island or whatever mining in secret mining in such a
by EGreg 6y ago
Okay they also have:
lobbying (as the tech industry does)
paying off government officials to use their island or whatever
mining in secret
mining in such a decentralized way that you can’t detect it, even maybe hijacking normal computing power
But I’m going to go with “it’s so lucrative, that you can't shut it down because they can pay off whatever legal means you dispense at them"
after all if your appeoach worked, why wouldn't the government do the same with all poachers and all plastic manufacturers and all fossil fuel companies?
- anigbrowl 6y agoWell, I'm sure there will be lobbying against it, but you specifically cited the example from Mexico of narcoterrorists threatening public officials so I wanted to explore that extreme scenario. Some countries are adopting this sort of approach with poachers, although (as with drug dealing) the people doing the actual poaching are generally near the bottom of the food chain and may not even be aware of the larger issues in play. I am fine with bad things happening to upper-tier environmental criminals though.