> what can you possibly change about the world to deincentivize that
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_fee_and_dividend
This would remove the incentive to mine crypto on any grid that is coincidentally emitting carbon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_fee_and_dividend
This would remove the incentive to mine crypto on any grid that is coincidentally emitting carbon.
As most (if not all) uses of electricity, Bitcoin mining is sensitive to the electricity price. Introducing a a carbon tax / carbon dividend, doesn't magically make any particular use of electricity economically unviable all of the time. It just pushes the cost equilibria to different values.