The state of New York did not ban bitcoin mining!
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/A7389
https://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2021/A7389C


Same for renewal of licenses.

There are several issues rises about this but I guess this is not relevant information to believe on, most provably the miners are not totally afraid about those things and they just rather think about the rising prices of electricity since this is more realistic problem to them. Maybe there are few country will impose this law but I don't think this will happen on all of the country around the world.

No, I don't think that countries will immediately jump on banning bitcoin just because some organizations saying that it harms the environment.

I'm also not convince that it needs to switch to PoS. And it will survived being the only PoW crypto, after all its the prime mover so I'm not sure what will make people not to invest despite this bad publicity. Banks as well is contributing and should be considered as environment concerns.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/banking-system-consumes-two-times-more-energy-than-bitcoin-research

They won't do it because as of now, the world has different opinions regarding it and that would not totally affect bitcoins once some country became hostile against miners, other countries will warm-heartedly welcome it. As for the critics out there. they won't cease to find some way to mock and degrade bitcoins, we just need to ignore them and leave them alone with their false claim because if ever we gonna give them some attention, that's when they think they are right and pursue their claims even though they don't even have enough evidence at all. It's sufficient for us to see big companies such as Paypal and others are now supporting it today, that would be a big slap to haters.

In a world completely dependent on fossil fuels it looks really idiotic when someone deals with something they can't control in this way. Bitcoin mining is at the very bottom of the problem when it comes to the environment and this cannot be a compelling argument when it comes to any ban. Of course, that won’t stop some countries from continuing to push that pointless agenda, or that geniuses like Mr. Mars from time to time say Bitcoin isn’t green enough to use it for transactions.

POS will never happen, no matter what blackmail they come up with - and in about 10 years, will this debate make any sense at all if we know that 99% of BTC will be mined, which means that the 1% (210 000) what remains will not certainly increase the number of miners, but will drastically reduce it.

It doesn't look like countries ban bitcoin mining due to environmental concerns. Countries begin to make ban on mining due to power shortage happening around. More problem takes place when mining is done illegally. Countries tried the best to make stop illegal mining and give way for registered miners. The governments weren't able to do this, and the same has resulted in the complete ban of mining.

Countries can ban mining but the miners will move to other place and that is what exactly happened when China banned mining due to shortage of electricity. So Bitcoin mining can happen until all the countries ban mining but this isn't really due to environmental concern just a reason to stop the future of decentralized payment system.

I think if countries do start to ban bitcoin mining it will be an excuse for them to ban bitcoin/cryptocurrencies.  The amount of waste countries create in all sorts of different situations pales in comparison to bitcoin mining.  It also might be pretty difficult for them to enforce.  Again I think if they do ban, it's more so they don't want bitcoin being around than it is they are concerned for the environmental impact.

The crypto industry is doing all it can to diversify to renewable energy. According to Bitcoin Mining Council Q3 2021 report, 57% of the energy used for crypto mining comes from renewable sources (hydro, wind, solar, nuclear, geothermal and carbon generation with carbon offsets as defined by the). Moving to green energy is a gradual process hence; the government needs to give crypto miners time to diversify their energy source.
Harsh policies against the crypto industry also have its economic effect on the state or country. Economic analysts have warned that this bill can lead to massive job loss because many local vendors consisting of electricians, engineers, and construction workers earn from the crypto industry. Bitcoin mining operations are providing high-paying and high-grade, great jobs for local communities in New York. An exodus of crypto miners could translate to jobs and tax dollars moving out of state. More countries would become Bitcoin friendly in the nearest future because the so-called environmental concerns would be reduced drastically due to mass adoption of green energy.

The better question to this is, can they and will it have lasting effects and will enough countries do it? And the answer to this is no.

Maybe some altcoin will, but not BTC

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Also this isnt possible if you look at how nodes work.

This FUD, bans and so on exist since years, yet bitcoin has more hashpower than ever and is the most successfull asset of all since its beginning and is still here doing fine.

You can check out the technical development section, there was many great answers to this.

Dont buy into the FUD guys.