Envirknment enthusiasts argue that the miners signed a deal with solar projects, impatient crypto miners simply choose to flare burn the computer revolution did before.
We never got the sense there was any willingness to scale back even for a nanosecond of what they were doing. The amount of energy consumed by cryptocurrency mining will likely vary over time, assuming that prices and user adoption continue to change. Crypto enthusiasts argue that the long-term societal and economic benefits of their industry will offset its electricity usage, just as the computer revolution did before it. Executive Summary I.
