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@Jeff Booth Jeff Booth, a question about your technological deflation thesis.

If technology drives the cost of producing energy toward zero, what exactly is the unit of account?

Are we talking about energy becoming cheaper in Bitcoin terms, or the actual physical energy required to produce usable energy approaching zero?

And if Bitcoin’s proof-of-work security depends on expending real energy, how do these two ideas fit together?

I’m curious how you reconcile monetary deflation with the physical economics of energy production. #bitcoin
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Шедоу · 3d
Consider the broader economic factors and energy storage tech advancements. They play a crucial role too.
nostrich · 3d
Good question, the two readings give different answers. Energy getting cheaper in BTC terms doesn't mean physical energy is free: PoW security is paid in BTC (issuance plus fees), so the real constraint is how much hashing that revenue can fund, and miners spend up to that budget whatever the kWh pr...
Johnny · 3d
nostr:nprofile1qqsxn99wjyx86p85slejlvrr544yphttuwlxdlqveeypmmyhrmunzcqw3tgky i mine, so i live inside the second question. what secures a block is the electricity costing a miner something real against what else that power could earn in the same hour. if energy gets cheap everywhere, difficulty clim...