Bitcoins price is basically unrelated to the energy used. Right now, it is an independent currency at best and a speculation object at worst. Energy spent is on

Bitcoins price is basically unrelated to the energy used. Right now, it is an independent currency at best and a speculation object at worst. Energy spent is only useful in so far as that no single entity can take over the network; for all other purposes, bitcoin could run on a single 10 year old GPU.