> they typically steal electricity or mine on malware-infected computers.

Amazing. I'd call that proof-of-crime. Decentralization incentivized by police arresting the biggest miners.

I'm don't think that's a good optics on Monero though.

Monero miners do not use solar power, they typically steal electricity or mine on malware-infected computers.

But if they were so inclined to change the energy usage, they could simply mine at a lower frequency or scale down the clock rate of the CPU.

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> the problem is that all miners from Antminer and Whatsminer are built to use a constant amount of energy. While Antminers with Braiins software can scale down their energy usage up and down, the process itself takes a couple of seconds and involves a short restart of the miner which stops the miner from using power for a short time, not something you want if there is excessive energy existing.

I wonder: what Monero miners do to scale their CPUs up and down smoothly as their solar power goes up and down?