> going to push the resources "wasted" to whatever's required to create hard drives Not if buying hard drives to mine with is unprofitable. There are huge amou

> going to push the resources "wasted" to whatever's required to create hard drives Not if buying hard drives to mine with is unprofitable. There are huge amounts of free hard drive space already paid for. If a nontrivial fraction of that is used for mining---at negligible cost---then commercial mining may find itself unable to compete.