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		pnt12 on May 18, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post m... "The people" who do it are less than 1% of "the people" a government represents. There are already laws in most countries forbidding you to litter, and you would never call that "playing God" - it just happens that littering with crypto mining is a multi billion dollar industry.

micropresident on May 18, 2021 [–]

I do call it playing God. In California there are laws against littering and they are not enforced. You cannot regulate change into the hearts of men.

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