If you own some resources, under what circumstances should someone else be able to tell you how to allocate/use them?
It's perfectly valid to say that governments should make laws or economic policies to prevent negative externalities like pollution, but that is begging the question of what activity is causing the pollution.
If your bitcoin mining rig is in an area that is powered by a coal power station, then you are indirectly increasing CO2 pollution, but coal that is burnt to supply other customers with power is no less polluting.
Therefore it doesn't seem equitable to single out just one user of the electricity. It is even more inequitable to punish bitcoin miners that use otherwise-curtailed renewable energy for the externalities of non-renewably powered miners.
It's perfectly valid to say that governments should make laws or economic policies to prevent negative externalities like pollution, but that is begging the question of what activity is causing the pollution.
If your bitcoin mining rig is in an area that is powered by a coal power station, then you are indirectly increasing CO2 pollution, but coal that is burnt to supply other customers with power is no less polluting.
Therefore it doesn't seem equitable to single out just one user of the electricity. It is even more inequitable to punish bitcoin miners that use otherwise-curtailed renewable energy for the externalities of non-renewably powered miners.