it may just be the case that politicans in countrys trying to ban mining have poor understanding of enegry production transport and use or do not trust their power providers to provide power not only to bitcoin but to the people.

everytime i get the muh prove of work fud from well educated it specialsts i tend to tell them if mining is a problem how can it be that energy is so cheap? if energy would be priced in terms of production cost and not in terms of market overproduction and underbidding the others noone in europe but the ones using the buffer function or the produced heat could mine bitcoin with a timed profit for a long time.

energy prices have to go up then co2 emissions and waste will go down. mining with thermal energy from the planet in remote locations is the way to go long term.

bitcoin has the incentive built in and soon mining will not compete with humans enegy consumption.

let them ban it where they want - somone will buy old miners and used solar panels and go to the desert to mine.

when we sarted to mine in the old days we would never imagine that either miners or power would be an issue some day. today it seems like silicium is more a bottleneck than energy. when taiwan would ban producing mining hardware or they would build anti mining circuits in multi use hardware then we would still have the old hardware.

either way... if we like it or not... stopping pow or changing it requires global consensus.