Interesting that nowhere is the link between money and energy discussed, except where crypto is crticised for using "too much" energy.
Yet, the following are all true:
Solar energy is free per KWhr, nothing is asked in return for it by the sun, other than maybe that we use it wisely.
Solar energy when used to create anything other than the heat, has a cooling effect on Earth. The more solar energy used in this way, including to create or scale up solar collection facilities, by creation of saleable crypto tokens, exchanged for more solar collection facilities, thus scaling up the solar facility, the greater the cooling effect. So the wise use of solar energy is to put as much of it as possible to use, creating things, anything other than heat. Otherwise we burn. Burning is the penalty we pay, for not using it wisely. If we remove things of nature putting it to use, like plants of various kinds, we must compensate nature for that by replacing it, either by plants put back, or by our own equivalent of plants, which put the solar energy to use creating things other than heat.
All of this so far is physics, not religion, and not arguable.
Motivation in profit driven business is to maximise profit, crypto mining is no exception, the miners with the cheapest energy source will naturally move to solar because this is the cheapest energy source. Those who do this get all the winnings over all the others. But this is seen as near criminal activity by authorities who seek to enforce their rule by collection of taxes, hence why it is never admitted by mainstream or banks.
Crypto mining is distributed solar generated money which no centralised authority can fully control, so they write about it as something bad for the planet, when actually it is the opposite, something good for the planet, for the physical reason explained earlier.
Money issued as debt on the other hand, is fully dependent on work having to be done, to redeem the debt, and when all other work is done, only the work of energy extraction remains, whether it is to split atoms or dig coal from the Earth or cut down and process trees, all of it produces KWhrs for which that work was required in return.
That activity of extraction is the reverse of putting energy to use from the sun, what we are doing there is converting things originally created by nature, ultimately back to heat, the raw state on Earth that the energy of the sun would become, before anything was done with it. All of this has the effect of raising temperature on Earth. Again the penalty for doing it is burning.
So there we are breaking a fundamental physical rule of nature on two counts, by not putting the energy from solar to use, because when don't put it to use then we have to find the energy necessary to fuel our bodies 24/7 from somewhere else, the only possibility of which is extraction.
So money as debt ties us into planetary destruction, because extraction is physically unsustainable whichever way we turn it.
No getting round that.
This should be taken into account of any analysis of money, if we want to survive as a species, which is surely the thing valuable.
What we have to get our heads around, is the fact that survival of the species can't be had at profit. Profit in terms of energy is the removal of the energy needed by other life, including humans, and the planet, so that a few others can flourish, but practicing it to conclusion is self destruction of all.
Hence why we have to move on to money as sunlight, from money as debt, only the former is sustainable.
Crypto, at least pow crypto, is money as sunlight and it is truly fully sustainable.
Don't let anyone try to say otherwise, is my advice for survival.
Also spot in history when good things happened due to money issued for free.
The dollar going up in value and oil prices going negative during massive issue of stimulus in the US was one. I even show numerically on actual utilities data why inflation is now because not enough free money to represent the free KWhrs of energy coming in, is issued. Money has to come to represent nothing, if not the only truly sustainable and thus the only truly valuable product, scaling up.
Missing this, just guarantees more misery, unfortunately.