Also the US government wastes energy producing Dollar bills and melting metal for coins. Producing any Currency requires energy.
We was just talkin bout this.
Really when you think about it almost all iot or devices with chipsets could be manufactured in the future to perform some quantifiable amounts of hashing, and network with your other physical assets to contribute to your own sovereign mining, providing an even more intricate and decentralized layer to the overall network.
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Except… they barely do that anymore. They just add a zero in an orange Excel spreadsheet. That’s not much more energy than playing solitaire on your computer and sending email across the country.
