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Re:Bitcoin consumed 134 TWh in total during 2021 by AlexCoventry on Sunday January 02, 2022 @12:16PM (#29770729)
> start sending rigs in orbit close to the sun

The 16-minute round-trip delay would wipe out any energy benefits, for bitcoin. Maybe you could come up with a consensus mechanism which allows people to somehow amortize recent calculations, though.

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Re:Bitcoin consumed 134 TWh in total during 2021 by ur-whale on Sunday January 02, 2022 @12:38PM (#29771078)
> Maybe you could come up with a consensus mechanism which allows people to somehow amortize recent calculations

Isn't that exactly what pooled mining is all about?

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