Quote from: Fortify on Today at 12:15:19 PM

Quote from: Swapzone_pr on November 10, 2021, 02:17:42 PM

At first, the headline elicited a "what?"

Then I read this:

"Swedish regulators believe cryptocurrency mining will prevent the country and the EU from complying with the Paris agreement on climate change

And again "come on"

But then it turned out that officials called for a ban in the European Union for mining cryptocurrencies using the Proof-of-Work algorithm.

In general, okay, Ethereum developers are already planning to abandon PoW in favour of the Proof-of-Stake algorithm, what will happen with other coins, will they also switch to a new algorithm or will they blow off these news?

Maybe you should include a link to a reputable news article if you're going to throw this out there. If it were to be true then it sort of fits in with the Scandinavian mentality of responsible and long term thinking (in comparison to other countries). If Bitcoin is to become a solid global e-currency then it really does need to address this issue, but it seems impossible at least until all the Bitcoin are mined and it turns purely into transaction network. There are much bigger environmental issues that could be targeted before going after cryptocurrency, but I can see the EU politicians going after this easy target - compared to say figuring out the oil/gas issue.

You're right I should have put I link, but I started reading different sources and researching, that distracted me, but actually you can just google the headline and get a lot of medias with the same news

https://news.bitcoin.com/swedish-regulators-call-for-eu-ban-on-crypto-mining-power-company-defends-industry/ https://www.aroged.com/2021/11/11/sweden-proposed-to-ban-mining-in-the-european-union/ and etc