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Re:Ethereum 2.0 – Minimum deposit reached by jihodl on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @08:02AM (#25198045)
There actually is a fundamental linkage between the computational work of mining (which the Bitcoin network treats as money) and energy. E = kB T ln 2, Landauer's Principle [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer's_principle

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Re:Ethereum 2.0 – Minimum deposit reached by rglullis on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @12:45PM (#25200845)
Computation for work and energy, yes. No one is arguing against that.

The problem is arguing a correlation between computation and work for price of BTC and/or cost of energy. That is the mistake from OP.

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