We could also stop letting it be about ego and focus on the practicalities of the problem.(not aimed at you) But read below.
That is too narrow a focus. These problems are negatively affecting several related industry sectors all at once. And yes, the reality is that cryptocurrency is at it's root a currency. It needs regulation.
Happen to be a gamer as well. I find the attitude of that statement to be as ignorant as it is misinformed. The benefit of gaming is defined by the individual playing games, not by someone making statements like the above. I personally play games to relax, to escape the real world for a time, to be challenged or to just have fun doing something in the virtual world I could never do IRL. For you or anyone else to marginalize the value of such is to insult the very fabric of a person's character. Put another way, for most people playing games is for fun and the benefit of having fun can never understated. The mining community is sucking up GPU's out of greed. If the governments of the world were to ban it, the effect would be minimal and the world would go on as it did before cryptocurrency. Playing games, not just of the video kind, is an integral part of human culture.
Everything you just said -
right back at you sweetheart.
1) Do you know what is also negatively effecting
most industries?
The modern banking industry.
How many times are we going to allow these money launderers to crash the world economy? How many times are we going to let banks like HSBC fund terrorism and drug wars with no real penalties levied? How long will we let archaic banking cartels arbitrarily tell innocent people that they need to pay a 10% fee just to send money to there families across an imaginary line on a map?
2) How dare you accuse a miner of "marginalizing" gamers, when
in reality that miner is punching back at "gamers" who marginalize miners! Do you not get his point?
He isn't
actually saying there is anything wrong with gaming, but he is saying that gaming is no more righteous a use of computing power than being paid to help run a transaction network.
In general I am just going to ask:
How stupid are some of you when it comes to realizing the scale that we as "gamers" are wasting computing power? Imagine the problems we could solve if we took the combined processing power wasted on Steam every night and instead used to it to REALLY SOLVE THE WORLD'S PROBLEMS. We aren't dealing with 50w 2D-only gaming toys anymore. Vega (for instance) has more computing power than a room-sized mini super computer had just a decade ago.
To only use this immense technology on gaming IS a complete waste.
If you just want to "relax", the PS4S can play all of the games you like for 100w buddy!
