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> There is no way to regain the energy that was turned into heat while mining bitcoins, so bitcoin is not a battery. You can regain the energy where it’s neede
by Liron 6y ago
> There is no way to regain the energy that was turned into heat while mining bitcoins, so bitcoin is not a battery.
You can regain the energy where it’s needed by using Bitcoin to purchase it
- dmitriid 6y agoYou don't regain energy this way. You're buying new energy. That's not how batteries work.
- Liron 6y agoSomeone else was going to use a unit of energy to mine Bitcoin, but you supplied it instead when you mined it. You don’t get “new” energy, you get “that energy”, the energy that the person somewhere else would have used to mine the Bitcoins that you mined. That’s the energy you stored.