Cryptocurrency miners are renting Boeing 747s to ship graphics cards
Imagine all these people wasting time, energy and power, the last of which is a crime against the environment and an affront to good sense at a time of global concern.<p>But when it comes to money, greed and self interest always triumph and there will be dozens stretching logic and apologism as far as it can go.<p>'Proof of work' has to the most hare-brained, wasteful, anti-environment scheme ever thought of. Responsible people should not just be wasting electricity in this manner.