This is a cool idea. We need more appliances that mine BTC

Incentive don’t have to be money. An incentive could be Laziness, safety and no accountability.

I think this is why most people don’t want to think: similar result, with little risk, effort and responsibilities.

I call this “If you give a mouse a cookie” syndrome.

I don’t think so. I believe that is why early on Christians condemned usury, cause it was viewed as participation is Antichrist behaviour.

One of the best books for getting a sense of what eternity feels like.

It is an odd coincidence that the early Christian’s saw Nero as the antichrist and he was one of the first to debase the currency (coin clipping).

A “safe/predictable” market is a controlled market

We are at the point where someone could start a company building appliances with no wifi and people would pay extra.