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A comment on Ask HN: How can cryptocurrency be always in power resource hunger.

Re:Ask HN: How can cryptocurrency be always in power resourc... by eimrine on Friday February 12, 2021 @08:02AM (#26113164)
Your answer is in bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf document. There is so-called Time Server which is needed for constant number of blocks to be produced while number of miners might be any. So, it is not the cryptocurrency is power hungry, but users.
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