Re:Bitcoin is not a Battery – it is a Sink
by fredfoobar on Sunday March 28, 2021 @01:31PM
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I get the "worse" comment, but not the "even worse" one. The system is NOT incentivizing people to join and waste electricity, the returns are diminishing for mining (and it gets worse every 4 years), the amount of up-front capital for a mining operation increases. I think it'll reach a tipping point and stop growing entirely.
Worse: It does the inverse of scaling. The more electricity that is added, the less efficient it gets.
Even worse: The system is designed to incentivize more people to join and waste electricity, by paying them to do so.