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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: Why didn't satoshi use PoW for something else?
by
Dig Bicks
on 18/10/2018, 17:00:40 UTC
Satoshi didn't think bitcoin mining would take up this much power.  He probably expected it to be more of a home mining thing instead of being on an industrial level.

either way we need to get serious about limiting energy usage because the Earth is in imminent danger because of climate change! We don't have much time left before humanity is doomed.