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Re:The Kingdom of Bhutan Has Been Quietly Mining Bitcoin for... by SamBam on Monday May 01, 2023 @08:39PM (#35781508)
No, because if someone invents a way to power YouTube free of energy, that would be awesome, and it wouldn't detract in any way from the value of YouTube.

But if someone worked out a way to generate BitCoin for free without any energy input, that would destroy BitCoin, because it depends on proof of work, where work is defined as consuming energy.

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Re:The Kingdom of Bhutan Has Been Quietly Mining Bitcoin for... by biggoodwolf on Monday May 01, 2023 @08:44PM (#35781545)
So that makes it intrinsically bad? What is acceptable vs unacceptable uses of energy? Esp. when we're not talking about food production or medicine
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