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Re:Bitcoin estimated to use 0.5% of the world's electric ene... by ericb on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @02:21PM (#17085012)
Similarly, my joke is that bitcoin is an alien species or hostile AI's bloodless, costless, infinitely scalable weapon to get potential spacefaring competitors to abort themselves by subverting their star's energy to fruitless labor.

tldr; Weaponized Game Theory.

Re:Bitcoin estimated to use 0.5% of the world's electric ene... by andai on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @02:28PM (#17085097)
See also: John C. Lilly's Solid State Intelligence