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Re:Intel unveils BonanzaMine, a Bitcoin accelerator ASIC by gaze on Monday February 21, 2022 @10:50AM (#30417173)
More or less. I guess there’s incentive issues too. Maybe now people keep their houses unnecessarily warm to mine more —- but again, this is the closest thing to any kind of justification I’ve ever heard.
Re:Intel unveils BonanzaMine, a Bitcoin accelerator ASIC by rbanffy on Monday February 21, 2022 @10:56AM (#30417252)
Now all we need is a way to make that boiler lined up with top-process silicon costing thousands of dollars per square inch cheaper than the one that uses an electric resistance.

And do that for the environment!