>the processing being done by my computer right now Well it depends what you are considering. Arguably, yes, your computer finished the HTTPS connection long b

>the processing being done by my computer right now Well it depends what you are considering. Arguably, yes, your computer finished the HTTPS connection long before you got around to reading the words on the page itself. But the scale of an idle CPU compared to a 100% CPU is not even close. Mine is sitting at 2% use while I type this. You could put that money into mining actual gold, and literally make 4x as much as mining bitcoin [0]. [0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/nov/05/energy-cost-of-mining-bitcoin-more-than-twice-that-of-copper-or-gold https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/nov/05/energy-co...