This reminds me of the plastics and fossil fuel industries telling consumers to recycle to fix the pollution problem.

Distributed computing for science research is like 0.01% of the wasted computing electricity while the idiocy of cryptocurrency where people literally waste electricity to create proof that their fiat imaginary coin has value to the suckers in their bigger fool scam.

Last I heard the world has a second UKs worth of burned fuel to make electricity for that ongoing scam.