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TFTC · 13w
NVIDIA CEO: “#Bitcoin is taking excess energy, storing it into a new form, it's called currency.” “And you take that currency wherever you like. So you took energy from one place and now you've...
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Not him too. This is Saylor's nonsense rhetoric.

Bitcoin does not condense, store, or transfer energy (beyond what all networked computers do).

POW on a massive scale requires a lot of energy because it's a massive amount of computation. The vast majority of the input energy is converted to waste heat.

Saying otherwise betrays a lack of knowledge of computer science and/or physics.

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Motosashi · 13w
Commentooor claims that genius rocket scientist/ greatest chip designer in the world don’t grasp physics.
Jack K · 13w
If energy spent produces only heat, how do you explain the existence of a persistent block afterward? What physical process made that block real? Why can every node instantly reject an invalid block without redoing the work? If the work left no informational trace, wouldn’t validation require rec...