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Once again, personal decisions on the consumer side doesn't matter here. Unless all consumers cooperate to force a ban on practices that are bad for environment. However that basically means forcing specific decisions on the 1% that control laws and business.

Prisoner's dilemma is a bad reference here.

Prisoner's dilemma is about situation when optimal outcome requires cooperation from all participants.

In the situation with climate change, personal decisions of 99% of Earth population do not really matter.

Current bitcoin price is around 35k USD. This means that mining of one BTC going to cost you up to 35k USD (including the cost of equipment, electricity and everything else like the probability of finding a block). Why so? If the cost of production was higher than market BTC cost then it would be not profitable to mine. If cost is much lower then it's worth to buy a mining rig and start mining.

1 block gives 6.25 BTC for the block and around 0.5 BTC from transactions. 1 block contains 4k transactions.So 35k US/BTC * (6.25 BTC + 0.5 BTC) / 4k transactions ~= 59$ per transaction. That includes all energy spent by all active miners and full cost of equipment.

Not sure if a "swimming pool of water" costs 60$. I guess not.

Keep in mind that IT domain is somewhat separated from the rest of all other economics of Belarus. Pay rates in IT-related companies a much higher than in in almost any other domain. On the other side, most of heavy industry, education and medical service are in decline.

Frequency of metro trains is reduced if compared to what there was had few years ago. 2 minute intervals are only on rush hours. Most of other time it's ~7-10m intervals.

Electric buses are used only on single route in the center of the Minsk.

Yandex and Uber in Minsk are joined into single company. So you can't say that Yandex beat Uber :)

> $9 SIM with unlimited data for a month

I suspect that this is not true. AFAIK, there are no real "unlimited" plans. There always a cap on total volume of data.