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There's higher friction in industries to switching to cheaper electricity?

But the question still stands: Is Argentina-levels of energy (now) whether "clean" or not, equal to not using something based around PoW and the inevitable burning of energy.

(IMO) It's bad by design.



I'm curious if there are other approaches to artificial scarcity of decentralized digital assets.


Its design is based in thermodynamics and math. It’s the best design out there, regardless of what amount mostly to invalid comparisons based on misunderstanding the potential utility of BTC.


So is monster truck design. That doesn't mean it's productive.




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