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Re:Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cuts the hash rate of RTX-3... by DennisP on Thursday February 18, 2021 @11:04AM (#26181482)
It's not like we'd stop protecting our oil supply if we converted to Bitcoin. We'd still need oil for cars and planes and so on. If we manage to stop using oil, we won't need the military to protect it anymore, even if we haven't converted to Bitcoin.

So I don't think we can lay the military's oil consumption at fiat's feet.

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Re:Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cuts the hash rate of RTX-3... by tenuousemphasis on Friday February 19, 2021 @02:10AM (#26190522)
It has nothing to do with protecting the oil supply. The U.S. military is deployed to ensure that oil producing countries don't go and sell their oil for anything other than dollars. Protecting the oil is completely orthogonal.
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