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How everyone’s wrong about the energy used in Bitcoin miningby@knut.svanholm
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How everyone’s wrong about the energy used in Bitcoin mining

by Knut Svanholm3mOctober 30th, 2018
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<span>T</span>here’s no such thing as a free lunch. There’s no such thing as a zero sum game. The 2nd law of thermodynamics tells us this. You know, the one about entropy and how everything will be really, really lame in a couple of trillion years. There’s no action without an equally big <em>re</em>action somewhere. This is also true for Bitcoin mining.

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