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So many good insights in this article. I haven't encountered such coherent language covering the macro forces driving the Bitcoin mining scene until now. > Bi
by metadat 4y ago
So many good insights in this article. I haven't encountered such coherent language covering the macro forces driving the Bitcoin mining scene until now.
> Bitcoin miners are in the business of bidding electronics depreciation and electricity consumption against each other to win a tournament in generating random numbers with mystical properties. From this tournament arises a mediocre transaction processing network and a speculative asset. You get more of the speculative asset if you’re the global highest bidder in electricity used in generating random numbers and, hence, the huge overlap in professional Bitcoin miners and people with deep expertise in quirks of the power generation market.
- evronm 4y agoYeah, I was really impressed with that paragraph. He's being kind of unfair to bitcoin, but put in context, that description is spot on.
- robocat 4y agoI am looking forward to seeing if Etherium has less correlation with Bitcoin after changing to proof-of-stake. The price of Etherium and Bitcoin were highly correlated, and was that partially due to production costs (power) or just market sector investments (large inflows or outflows to/from the crypto market in general).