There are many ways to waste electricity. Bitcoin is a big one, but so is electric heating of uninsulated houses (still very common in the US): https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=39293
=> All this will be solved by pricing in the environmental cost.
This is like seeing someone else light a cigarette on a plane, and deciding it’s harmless for you to smoke because someone else is already smoking.
(Edit: changed metaphor to match original)
Mind your own uses of energy and leave the market to decide what is really valuable.
Obviously not.
Different sources of energy have different externalities, and different uses have different impacts.
> Mind your own uses of energy and leave the market to decide what is really valuable.
The market is made up of people, who make decisions by communicating with one another.
Tellinge people not to discuss what is valuable and what the externalities is a sign you don’t have faith in the market.
Why have you read emotions into this?
> Discuss away but it's not working.
What goal do you imagine it isn’t working at?