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Re:I heat my home by mining crypto currencies by virgo_eye on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @06:15AM (#26236007)
No, essentially 100% of energy used for computation will turn into 'waste' heat.

If you calculate 1000 digits of pi, those digits will not embody any energy.

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Re:I heat my home by mining crypto currencies by medstrom on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @09:10AM (#26237391)
Just turning chaos into order takes thermodynamic work, but I was wildly off with my percentages. Thinking in terms of an idealized computer that doesn't create heat, but didn't realize how far we were from that.
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