Oh hey, someone else did the math and came to the same conclusion I did a few months ago.https://twitter.com/grist/status/1011747701384507392 …
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I had a thought; ok this uses absurd amounts of power, but the miners are highly motivated to create/support cheapest possible sources. If/when bitcoin mining {somethings into something else} other uses may be found for that power infrastructure. It'll be in odd locations tho.
This is a problem though; it's not that clear that other uses will be found for more power infrastructure in those locations. Bitcoin mining is a very special use case in that literally all it needs is power. No transportation, only basic internet access is sufficient.
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..someone will figure out how to reconfigure Antminer's hardware SHA engine to create a Turing-complete machine and within minutes humans are made obsolete by the biggest AI ever accidentally created. And it's away in the Chinese mountains running on Hydro.
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