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Re:BitTorrent inventor announces eco-friendly Bitcoin compet... by kiddico on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @04:21PM (#15657176)
What are you even getting at here?

That is a totally different use case. A display is supposed to always be on, while a cpu should turn off while not in use. When a cpu has no work it slows down to conserve power and reduce heat output. What happens when a monitor has no input data? It goes to sleep. It doesn't just display the last thing and continue processing a stream of data from it's input.

Re:BitTorrent inventor announces eco-friendly Bitcoin compet... by Squithrilve on Thursday November 09, 2017 @08:03AM (#15662002)
Well Bitcoin is always on because people are constantly using it so it can't "conserve power" just as a constantly on display or CPU can't.