Re: Virtual money has real-world consequences
Surely this is just economics - the "cost" of the currency be it crypto pr precious metal based is dominated by the energy cost.
On a related note my parents dump their solar power into their immersion tank through a big resistor - and get paid for it too via the government subsidy. What if instead they put the energy into a water-cooled mining computer and dump the energy into the same tank? They'll get paid twice, and the heat generated is still the same except this time doing some useful "work".
Biting the hand that feeds IT
