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A comment on Bitcoin and other PoW coins are an ESG nightmare. Parent comment
If you read bitcoin.pdf, the security depends on the % of miners that are honest.
In a nutshell, more energy just means that the "difficulty" goes up, i.e more hashes are required, but that's nothing to do with security.
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If you read bitcoin.pdf, the security depends on the % of miners that are honest.
In a nutshell, more energy just means that the "difficulty" goes up, i.e more hashes are required, but that's nothing to do with security.