Or alternately it's about combatting large-scale money laundering, terrorist arms sale, and the stuff that they actually say it's for. Hmmm. > I mean, the end

Or alternately it's about combatting large-scale money laundering, terrorist arms sale, and the stuff that they actually say it's for. Hmmm. > I mean, the end goal is also to decide what you spend it on… Or that might just be ludicrous hyperbole, and the article you linked could be 95% speculation, as it appears to be. The environmental concerns could be more to do with the investigations on BTC and ETH and the wastefulness of PoW. But no, I'm sure you're right, the US government that is helpless in the face of citizens slaughtering each other with firearms is going to regulate how much beef you can cram down your gullet.