Reply to post: Virtual money has real-world consequences

Dollar for dollar, crafting cryptocurrency sucks up 'more energy' than mining gold, copper, etc

Pascal Monett Silver badge

Virtual money has real-world consequences

Here's hoping that this lunacy will finally become totally uneconomic and currency mining will just die off, leaving malware scum with a big problem to extract bitcoin from their victims.

More realistically, bitcoin mining will die off and be replaced in volume by some other copycat - extant or to be created, so no change to the use of resources.

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