This is achtually the nichest of niches where mining bitcoin is not stealing from Society: the existing alternative resisting heating, would produce as much heat per watt as mining bitcoin would.

Sure, there's the question of using the hardware for this purpose, and possibly this dampens the transition to heat pumps, but it's the 'least immoral' mining situation I've heard of so far.

Norwegian power production is to 90%+ hydro power. Norway is under the NO column in this table.

https://www.statnett.no/en/for-stakeholders-in-the-power-ind...

It's not in Norway that they are burning fuel to produce electricity…

How are they stealing from soceity?