fwiw, mining would bring foreign currency where keeping the lights on at night does not. That would then allow spending on - keeping the lights on at night. >

fwiw, mining would bring foreign currency where keeping the lights on at night does not. That would then allow spending on - keeping the lights on at night. > With this in mind, banning mining is not a bad idea at all. Well, laws you can't enforce are always a bad idea. And laws with a stupidly disproportional effect. Mining is trivial and requires no on-ramp, so you'll never catch the miners - they can decentralize easily, with one mining rig in each house. What you'll do is cripple the little guy who wants to spend $50 of BTC he earned online.