Point is the energy will still be spent and the carbon emitted if the grid is still primarily runs on fossil fuels.

Energy use isn't the problem. Carbon emissions are. Green the grid, don't try to police people's energy use.

People have had plenty of time to understand bitcoin. If they are so seeped in ignorance still, just let time do the convincing.

We have dirty shipping barges, endless pounds of meat, useless use of cars, tvs for entertainment, computers for the same, private jets, hell planes in general, skyscrapers for jobs that don’t matter, roads to nowhere, and so, so much more wasted energy — but a sovereign monetary system that is free from corruption in its creation and in transfer, and THIS is the great evil energy user?

How utterly daft people are to not see the plainness of this attack on freedom. They are like sheep to the slaughter.

Time is a brutal teacher. Freedom lost is regained through suffering.

Energy production is flexible to a degree and it very much depends on energy usage. Up to 0.5% of the total energy usage of the word just disappeared overnight, so it is safe to claim that a big percentage of that difference won’t even be produced, decreasing carbon emission.

A mining GPU is running 24/7, the GPU of the heaviest-usage gamer will be maybe a quarter of that, with the vast majority of actual gaming use cases being far below that. Nowhere near equivalent.