> then your mining rig is powered by coal, And my emissions are offset for the fee that I pay. Carbon credits, more planted trees, whatever. My net impact is

> then your mining rig is powered by coal, And my emissions are offset for the fee that I pay. Carbon credits, more planted trees, whatever. My net impact is likely lower than anyone that doesn't pay for renewables, even with mining. > And crypto needs to be banned because it's all a gigantic scam that has a gigantic environmental cost attached to it For PoW, it's the purest form of currency - the value of energy itself. For other currencies, it's no different than precious metals. Trust HN to call decentralized technologies enabling pseudonymity/anonymity scams on one hand while advocating for decentralized technologies enabling pseudonymity/anonymity on the other hand. Also, from my perspective, you should stop eating meat. Your eating of meat provides you nothing but selfish pleasure while causing a ton of carbon emissions - and actual tangible suffering on scales never before seen on this planet. The magnitude of suffering caused is tens billions of times worse than crypto. Let's ban meat first.