Deliberately wasting energy to achieve an orthogonal goal always struck me as a very 'unengineering' solution to a problem. Almost every other project is optimi

Deliberately wasting energy to achieve an orthogonal goal always struck me as a very 'unengineering' solution to a problem. Almost every other project is optimized for efficiency but bitcoin is the opposite. Sure, it was a clever solution to bombproof security at the time but I always felt this was its Achilles heel.