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> You playing a game 4h/day is nothing compared to 1000 gpus mining 24/7. Red Dead Redemption 2 sold 34 million, the game takes well over 100 hours to complete

> You playing a game 4h/day is nothing compared to 1000 gpus mining 24/7. Red Dead Redemption 2 sold 34 million, the game takes well over 100 hours to complete and runs GPUs to their limits. I think even if just half or a quarter of the players completed it that's significant next to mining and needs to be looked at with the same level as criticism.

totony 6y ago
That's not the point. The person playing the game would pay 10cents in carbon tax or something, which is insignificant to them. The person with a bitcoin farm would have to pay much much more, which is a disincentive. And even if it is worth it to them to run with the carbon tax (as it would be for a gamer), the money that's being taxed can be used to offset their emission. That's the point of a carbon tax; pollute if you want BUT you pay for what you generate as pollution so that we can offset it in some other way.