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

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      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

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        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.

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          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