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I did not say this was a widely adopted use case yet. I'm just pointing out that every green energy producer in the world right now currently burns off excess energy as waste heat. If they move to mining bitcoin instead, they'll actually earn money from that waste electricity.

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I agree, but the argument sounds like greenwashing. Sure, it's possible that PoW could be run from green energy, but what's the likelihood of that happening? how do we get there?

I offered some suggestions (ban unregulated large-scale mining, connect farms to specific green grids), but I doubt Bitcoin fans will like them. :)

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