The best way to make a service provider care about the environment is if trees can somehow be the customer.
A big part of a decentralized database's design is its protection against DDoSing. Proof of stake is very low environmental cost but you'll discover that the proof of stake networks with low fees can be DDoSed extremely cheaply.
Other networks use the networking architecture to protect against DDoSing.
> amount of energy being used to mine bitcoin is a real problem
Yes, it is. Although I'd like to say that if bitcoin energy use has a crowding-out effect, like an electric car does, then I'd favor mining bitcoin resulting in more hydropower dams being built than people doing business that can't be centralized like mining can and requiring liquid (dirty) fuels.
Datacenters as a whole can be made really efficient and are, in my opinion, a decent investment that can be repurposed better than e.g. an office building full of people doing traditional banking.
So it's not super straightforward even if on net we don't need cryptocurrency miners and I of course agree that it's bad for the environment.
A big part of a decentralized database's design is its protection against DDoSing. Proof of stake is very low environmental cost but you'll discover that the proof of stake networks with low fees can be DDoSed extremely cheaply.
Other networks use the networking architecture to protect against DDoSing.
> amount of energy being used to mine bitcoin is a real problem
Yes, it is. Although I'd like to say that if bitcoin energy use has a crowding-out effect, like an electric car does, then I'd favor mining bitcoin resulting in more hydropower dams being built than people doing business that can't be centralized like mining can and requiring liquid (dirty) fuels.
Datacenters as a whole can be made really efficient and are, in my opinion, a decent investment that can be repurposed better than e.g. an office building full of people doing traditional banking.
So it's not super straightforward even if on net we don't need cryptocurrency miners and I of course agree that it's bad for the environment.