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submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

it's weird, but legal for some reason. Giving back energy to the grid can cost money. Shy of just stacking a bunch of batteries, what could I do with the spare summer sunlight?

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Mine crypto with some low energy hardware?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

An support crime while I'm at it? F### no

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago
[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

It's crypto, I've made money trading it, I've made money mining, I've seen the statistics as how much of the transactions are sketchy

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Dude, we're just talking about using your extra energy to mine coins and sell it to someone else who is willing to buy..

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

mining isn't just magically making coins. it's verifying transactions in return for donations. Knowing most transaction s are sketchy means I'd knowingly be enabling that

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Please provide sources on how mining a sand coin, etherium, dogecoin, algorand, Solana, or any other coin is doing this.

I realize it's used for money laundering at times, but I'm missing connections here.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's not the coins themselves, obviously. People use crypto in plenty of dodgy ways. Most common crypto scams from the top of my head: rug pulls, nft's, play-to-earn, crypto exchanges blocking people from withdrawing but allowing transactions into Russia, people buying and selling on the black market.

I've seen all of these happen, and it's still an issue. I don't want to be enabling that

inb4 "nft's aren't inherently bad". It's not much different from the art industry. lots of laundering and tax avoidance there

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