I can get behind “uses a lot of water”. But where the headline loses me (to the point where I won’t be reading the article) is “potentially cause freshwater shortages”.
If someone is using water to mine bitcoins… that’s because they can’t think of anything more useful to do with that water and likely means they are operating somewhere that has an abundance of water.
And if they’re wasting a resource that is needed to grow food, well that’s something the local government can easily stop.
Oh, right. Like the way the government totally interfered with Nestle when they were taking the drinking water of the local population in Michigan…
Spoiler: they didn’t. The elite get to screw over the poor, because the elite get first dibs on how to use drinkable water, for sales or mining Bitcoin.
I can get behind “uses a lot of water”. But where the headline loses me (to the point where I won’t be reading the article) is “potentially cause freshwater shortages”.
If someone is using water to mine bitcoins… that’s because they can’t think of anything more useful to do with that water and likely means they are operating somewhere that has an abundance of water.
And if they’re wasting a resource that is needed to grow food, well that’s something the local government can easily stop.
Oh, right. Like the way the government totally interfered with Nestle when they were taking the drinking water of the local population in Michigan…
Spoiler: they didn’t. The elite get to screw over the poor, because the elite get first dibs on how to use drinkable water, for sales or mining Bitcoin.