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Re:Bitcoin is a disaster by zik on Thursday December 31, 2020 @07:13PM (#25598921)
If electricity became less available the mining rate of Bitcoin would automatically adjust to the scarcity of available computation - it's not like there's a specified amount of electricity that has to be used per transaction.
Re:Bitcoin is a disaster by xapata on Thursday December 31, 2020 @08:01PM (#25599450)
It's less about steady-state global availability than burst capacity. What if the People's Liberation Army decides that temporary control of the Bitcoin network is a valuable capability?