Using energy is a right, you should be able to use it however you want and that is fine
I think this is a key point, actually. I think it insane that people spend huge amounts of energy on the manufacture and transport of TVs and cable boxes, and all the energy they use, to watch some of the most mind numbingly stupid content produced, such as anything involving the Kardashians. Not to mention all the energy the Kardashians use filming their TV series. Yet you never see me trying to ban the Kardashians or ban people from using energy on things I think are pointless.
Energy has a cost, and if you pay that cost, you can use that energy however you like.
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stepwilli made the point I was thinking reading down the thread. The way Bitcoin mining
is being demonised would almost make out that miners are creating electricity themselves
by burning hazardous waste like plastic, car tyres, used engine oil and polystyrene at
the backs of their premesis' and polluting every river they are close to.
Miners to my mind are plugged into the electrical grid, they are consumers of electricity,
from the same source as every other consumer from household to industrial.
The finger needs to be pointed at the creators and suppliers of grid energy who use
and burn predominantly fossil fuels, not the consumer, we can only use what is provided.
