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Americans are heating their homes with Bitcoin this winter

3 points| quadtree | 3 months ago |cnbc.com

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extropic-engine|3 months ago

no they aren’t. a few cherry picked examples are. this is hyperreality. ask yourself what they are trying to manufacture consent for, and why

pestatije|3 months ago

if you move a bit and it consumes 1W, do you get the same heat as if you put 1W directly to the heater?

uxp100|3 months ago

Not exactly the same. Very nearly the same. I’m not real familiar with the physics of computation but look into theoretical minimum power consumption. Something like 99.999% the same heat output IIUC.