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Cost / hash. If power is free they don't care about power
by Badfood 6y ago
Cost / hash. If power is free they don't care about power
- adolph 6y ago/ time. Time is immutable cost.
- gwern 6y agoEven if power is free, you still get only a limited amount of it to turn into hashes. Power sources like plants or dams only produce so much. Even if you have bribed a corrupt grid operator to give you 100% of the output from a X megawatt coal plant for free, you're still limited to X megawatts of hashing. If you can turn that X megawatts into 10*X megawatts' worth of your competitors' hashing, well, you just 10xed your profit.