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As long as we are making large unilateral changes:

We should have a re-distributive carbon tax.

An issue with a carbon tax as it relates to bitcoin is that it would simply force mining into more lax countries. The only way to discourage what miners are doing would be to lower the value of bitcoin.

This prisoner's dilemma comes up so much in global politics, it should have it's own name.

Agreed, it'd also push any mining that happens in places that adopt it to use clean energy.

The issue of who gets to produce carbon, how much and for how long is really huge and is not dominated by any singular issue.

Good idea. We should also abolish private landlords and immediately provide housing to everyone who is unhoused.

Yes, we should modify our social support systems in the direction of just providing housing. It won't solve all the problems, but for many people, it's a cheaper, more effective form of support than the things we do now.

What I want to get at is: let us have world peace.

Yeah, this is a much better solution.

You can't really ban proof-of-work practically anyway, but you can make quite easily make dirty electricity more expensive than clean electricity.

Yes, let perfect be the enemy of the good.

A carbon tax isn't some pie in the sky thing, most developed countries have implemented it.

For those wondering wikipedia has a list of places that have implemented some form of carbon tax: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_tax#Implementation

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