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Funny, a lot of bitcoiners will say they hate government regulation.

Well, without environmental regulation in the U.S., these landfill gas bitcoin mining projects would probably not exist, as we’re hearing on this spaces (landfills are being told they need to reduce methane emissions by gov’t regulators). In other countries where there aren’t these same regulations, it’s much lower on their list of priorities!

Just making an observation don’t shoot the messenger!

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Gunson 2y ago

This is a bad argument. You're trying to say that regulation is good because in this one edge case it creates a business opportunity for some Bitcoin miners, and people are too happy about it?

It's possible that bitcoiners can be enthusiastic about something incentived by regulation because it helps to offset the mountain of other regulatory threats it faces. Also possible that people just like the idea of using waste in an innovative way.

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