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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Bitcoin needs to change to avoid the inevitable environmentalist backlash
by
toleng
on 03/10/2014, 01:42:49 UTC
Bitcoin miner is a perfect money printing machine.  Electricity goes in, money goes out.  This simple fact overwhelms everything else, and ensures that Bitcoin will always use a lot of electricity.

If bitcoin always uses proof of work, then you are correct because proof of work will always use a lot of electricity.

But generating heat with electricity does not necessary means waste. The heat could be well used in future when the competetion will go to the point only the miners who sells/monetarize the heat can still turn profit in Bitcoin mining


No, it is not possible to transform heat into other forms of energy. Unless you need heat right away (to stay warm) any heat energy is essentially wasted