So, that’s a yes, then? Coming from Bitcoin, the harbinger of free marketry, her proponents calling for additional taxes to be levied upon energy to help unfree a market is a bit odd.
“We made this thing which consumes about as much energy as Serbia on an international scale, and is very likely in the running for the most expensive computation on the planet. It’s designed incredibly inefficiently to brute force through SHA2 in 30MW+ space heaters around the world because we believe centralization is Evil, but now that what it makes is valuable, we can deflect criticism of its energy consumption to the pricing of the electricity markets. Raise the price of energy to stop us. What’s that? A lot of people already can’t afford electricity?”
It’s OK to admit Bitcoin is inefficient.