Europe already have plans to be sufficient in renewable energy and will also monitor how much energy a home is using. With such monitoring, yep they can see thru whos doing stuff like crypto mining.
The monitoring of electricity consumption is already a thing. That's one way how to catch owners of home-made marijuana plantations.
Sure, but there has been much less in the way of media attacks about its volatility this time round it seems.
Attacking bitcoin due to the volatility has become boring. Throwing dirt at something for being dangerous (for its volatility for example) is not a credible threat when you consider how many people are gambling drinking alcohol, abusing drugs. No one listens to that don't trade Bitcoin, it's dangerous narrative.
But with climate change nonsense, you get to frighten your listeners with things like your children won't have a home on this planet if you don't do something quick. One of those pollutants is Bitcoin. Hopefully it won't work.
another example is Greenpeace's shitty 1 million dollar campaign against BTC, it is being challenged by one of our very own through
bitcoincleanup.com, and i also know many other community member's are doing their own things to challenge that lie. So i am thinking it will be the same with this too, the community will still collectively challenge and prove that all of these are lies, and only a government that has no use of the truth won't see it.
Greenpeace is lobbying the US government. One way or the other, they have a voice. Maybe no one takes them seriously but they are shouting. Bitcoincleanup.com is a great initiative but it remains to be seen if it or something similar can become a valid counter argument in institutions of power.
Will mining be banned? Let's assume that it will be forbidden on an industrial scale, but who can forbid doing it at home in small quantities? Supervisory authorities will not be able to check or track this.
You are forgetting about the implications of what such an industrial scale mining ban would have on the security of the blockchain. It's no longer the same secure network we have today and it becomes considerably easier to attack by adversaries.