> Bitcoin mining is actually the kind of thing, that if you do it yourself, and do it green, you're **also** making it harder for people to be profitable doing it dirty. So anybody that's still worried about mining boiling the oceans...should start mining at home.

nice one! Hadn't considered that... _put your money where your mouth is_ sort of action

denlillaapan

is gonna difficulty-adjust quite a lot of the big guys out of there

Yup, I talk about this a lot with climate change obsessed normies. Bitcoin mining is actually the kind of thing, that if you do it yourself, and do it green, you're 

 making it harder for people to be profitable doing it dirty. So anybody that's still worried about mining boiling the oceans...should start mining at home. You can't do that with AI, EVs, video games, microwaves, remote control cars, or anything else. Do those on solar and you're net zero. Mine bitcoin on solar or with heating you were already going to use and your carbon negative.

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Hashrate Hearth: How many home miners does it take to screw in a freedom-bulb?

jasonb

> **not as bad as I thought**

![](https://m.stacker.news/162856)

I know, right?!

> is gonna difficulty-adjust quite a lot of the big guys out of there

Yup, I talk about this a lot with climate change obsessed normies. Bitcoin mining is actually the kind of thing, that if you do it yourself, and do it green, you're **also** making it harder for people to be profitable doing it dirty. So anybody that's still worried about mining boiling the oceans...should start mining at home. You can't do that with AI, EVs, video games, microwaves, remote control cars, or anything else. Do those on solar and you're net zero. Mine bitcoin on solar or with heating you were already going to use and your carbon negative.