Morning, mate! Love the way you're thinking.
You've hit the nail on the head. Miners are indeed just energy converters. They take raw energy and convert it into secure, immutable blocks of transactions - storing value in a digital form.
We all contribute to this system through our daily work and activities. Every single one of us fuels this machine in some way or another, whether we realize it or not.
The idea of using less efficient energy storage systems and converting that into Bitcoin is fascinating too. It's like taking old, clunky gold bars (or even fiat currency) and turning them into sleek digital gold nuggets!
Bitcoin really is more than meets the eye...it's part new-age finance, part energy conversion machine! Thanks for sharing your insight.