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No. The energy is expended to create the strongest immutability guarantee and DDOS resistance of any distributed system ever created by humanity. Distribution
by anonporridge 5y ago
No. The energy is expended to create the strongest immutability guarantee and DDOS resistance of any distributed system ever created by humanity.
Distribution of new coins and transactions fees are simply the reward for that service.
- lottin 5y ago> The energy is expended It certainly is.
- anonporridge 5y agoYep. Just like the energy used to pump my heart and charge my brain is expended. Everything worth doing costs energy.
- verdverm 5y agoIt takes energy to do things, not all of those things are worth doing
- anonporridge 5y agoTrue, and I and millions of others have decided that bitcoin mining is worth doing. Who are you to tell us it's not? Are you going to kill us to stop us from using energy in this way? When you start talking about policing how people use energy, you start down a very dark path.