Crypto discussions forums are popular among cryto lovers. Lots of information on crypto related subjected are made readily available. Other social media channels like Facebook, Twitter, And lately telegram which has taken a unique role as a forum. Making it look like it was created for crypto related discussions. 
Among all these is this forum the bitcointalk forum. Has taken a place, with the aim clearly defined as made for bitcoin related discussions primarily.
But with more interest in crypto use, do you think there should be an alternate forum?
What makes this forum unique?
What changes would you like to see in this forum to make a space for the stream of newbies coming into crypto space?
What other social media forum do you think could be adapted as a crypto discussion forum?

Recently, I decided to venture into an interesting and profitable(not of lately like before) part of crypto currency, known as CRYPTO MINING. It uses hardware Devices usually built up into a mining farm and financed by friends and investors knowing that a larger investment would reduce cost of mining and increase profits on investments. Crypto mining has faced a lot of hinderance like the volatility of the price of bitcoins and bitcoin cash, government taxes and now restrictions by some countries due the perceived green house gas generated from energy use.

I bumped into a quite interesting analysis made by Vladimir Jelisavcic on long hash. He compared the Energy use by bitcoin mining and an alternate currency, gold mining. You can check it out here; https://www.longhash.com/news/bitcoin-uses-a-lot-of-energy-but-gold-mining-uses-more.

What do you think about this analysis and the effect it has on investments and government restrictions on mining?