Banning watering gardens is exactly as dumb as banning proof of work. The vast majority of water wastage occurs irrigating farms supporting crops that are unsuitable for that area.
A solar panel connected to a coin miner is only doing good in the world. Where is the negative? You sure it's the mining that is the bad thing and not the dirty energy?
We are mobilizing all these resources and manufacturing capacity to do what? Run infinite loops on a useless program?
Meanwhile at my lab that works on bio simulations they could not find gpus to do their research.
Are gamers just running useless programs too?
We mobilise resources for whatever people want to pay for… “why” they want to spend their money on that has never been an issue.
Is Gucci wasting leather that could otherwise be used to make school shoes? Ban Gucci!
* and also dumping them all together overnight
For one, you are wasting a solar panel that could be offsetting more positive energy usage. And building both the solar panel and the miner is far from emission-free.
Building a solar panel and a gpu (say) is not emission free? Because they require energy to refine and manufacture. So we are still back to the fact the issue is with the energy generation. Right?