Over 2 percent of the US’s electricity generation now goes to bitcoin::US government tracking the energy implications of booming bitcoin mining in US.

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    A lot still do, and that’s where the miners would go

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      If governments started regulating bitcoin because it was proof of work based then people aren’t going to pump real money into another proof of work scheme to replace it - why would they take the risk of it happening again when there are alternatives? the mining profit margins would disappear and so would they.

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        It woulf take years and years to pass such a ban in a significant number of countries - assuming they would ever want to cooperate on this, that is

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          Oh I think that’s probably true, but the question assumed it taking place