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antris on May 16, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Bitcoin estimated to use 0.5% of the world's elect...

I guess the point is, in the traditional money system we could create that $100k with practically zero energy.

dr_win on May 17, 2018 [–]

No, mining gold is not cheap. And if by "traditional money system" you mean fiat then I must argue that it is not comparable. Comparing bitcoin to fiat is like comparing gold to paper.

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