>Take your favorite evil mega-corporation: If you can offer them a way to perform the same task using half the energy, they'd immediately jump at the opportunit

>Take your favorite evil mega-corporation: If you can offer them a way to perform the same task using half the energy, they'd immediately jump at the opportunity. > Bitcoin miners, on the other hand, would just... mine twice as fast, consuming exactly the same energy as before. Both situations are the same, in your first example the mega-corp would just use the increased efficiency to produce more and sell more of whatever they sell, as long as there was demand for it.