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Re:El Salvador Bitcoin bill passes and president hints volca... by smt88 on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @04:01AM (#27445399)
PoW mining is a way to export energy, and they can do it much further than to immediate neighbors.

BTC is a bit like transferrable electricity. Whether that makes it good or bad for the world is certainly... debatable.

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Re:El Salvador Bitcoin bill passes and president hints volca... by jankeymeulen on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @05:53AM (#27446112)
Good luck converting the BTC back to energy though.
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Re:El Salvador Bitcoin bill passes and president hints volca... by senectus1 on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @08:55PM (#27455467)
I mean, good luck converting that Gold ingot back into energy...
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