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heartbreaking: the worst person you know just made a great point
Knowing Russia has been endorsing mining for years, that means their economy is so severely damaged it's on brink of collapsing
It’s only been legal to mine in Russia for a few months, and you still have to register with the government if you use over a certain amount of energy to monitor consumption. How is that endorsing?
Edit: Ah, it’s part of their attempt to get around sanctions:
“As part of the experimental regime, it is possible to use bitcoins, which we had mined here in Russia (in foreign trade transactions)," Siluanov told Russia 24 television channel.
"Such transactions are already occurring. We believe they should be expanded and developed further. I am confident this will happen next year," he said, adding that international payments in digital currencies represent the future.
The fact that they're spending money with a ban instead of raising money with a pigouvian tax tells us that they don't just want to save resources.
My conspiracy theory: the Russian economy is on the brink of collapse. The government is worried that its subjects will abandon the Ruble, and a mine is a huge source of money that people can use to flee the country or defect.
Seems like a terrible thing to invest in.
It gets more difficult as it goes along, requiring more power, more hardware, more energy...
At some point doesn't it break some kind of negative even, no matter how good you're doing? Eventually, it would have to be worth an extravagant amount to make it worth mining.
Isn't it a straight shot right into the garbage at base value?
The "difficulty" of the problem being solved automatically adjusts.