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?

    • Boomkop3@reddthat.comOP
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      fa 3 mesos

      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

      • SpaghettiYeti@lemmy.world
        2·
        fa 3 mesos

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

        • Boomkop3@reddthat.comOP
          12·
          fa 3 mesos

          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

          • SpaghettiYeti@lemmy.world
            2·
            fa 3 mesos

            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.

            • Boomkop3@reddthat.comOP
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              fa 3 mesos

              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