Bitcoin has to consume electricity because proof-of-work timestamping is the only way we can order a decentralized sound money's transactions - if a money is centralized, the keynesian inflationists come along and ruin it.https://twitter.com/georgeeaton/status/1031135495194112003 …
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Bitcoin uses energy because true value can't just come from nothing. Why don't people make this point and leave it at that?
It's a little-known and non-trivial argument to make accurately: https://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2011/06/of-wages-and-money-cost-as-proxy.html …
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Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Not the bedtime story I expected, but probably much better than what it would have otherwise been.
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