What do you think about the special tax on electricity for mining?

- it would introduce a precedent where government decides what is a good and bad use of energy

- miners will just migrate as they have already done

- pushes the production cost of Bitcoin up, therefore price should go up (although the production cost is just a far lower bound of price usually)

- demonstrates there are people in charge who didn’t even open 1 book on macroeconomics. More energy => more GDP, it’s that simple. You should introduce incentives to create abundant energy, Bitcoin has literally been one of those incentives for Texas, not introduce friction to spend energy (for reflexivity less spending reduces capex investment which reduces production)

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yea, it’s a silly as it sounds, let’s hope it doesn’t go through

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Quebec which uses primarily hydroelectricity has banned (or is planning to?) ban Bitcoin mining.

That’s silly. Hydroelectricity is cleaner. And new miners will just go somewhere else and might power their mines by coal. Quebec will spend less energy, but overall the planet will be more polluted than if the same miners were in Quebec. How is that better?

Telling me what I can do with something I purchase isn’t anything I will tolerate.

That’s the spirit!

Oh it’s not better for sure, also, since the energy is not used, the investments will be lower, in time this means lower power output for Quebec.. and macroeconomics will have no mercy: no power growth, no GDP growth

https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_3015