Maybe it'll cause the biggies in society to spend on Solar Power Sats in geosynchronous orbit. Actually, in an age of Putin and Xi, these would be sucker punches that we'd be setting ourselves up for. Yes, Vlad would leave the globe encased in scraped satellite parts, if we provide him the means. But, if we need electricity directly for economic processing of currencies, why not perfect nuclear fission, for example and get enough engineers to make inherently safe reactors?? I mean, now that there's a greater economic incentive? For home use, I still am betting on solar power on every rooftop + batteries & and wind power at sea.
Where's my inherently safe reactor, Ma? -----Original Message----- From: Jason Resch <jasonre...@gmail.com> To: Everything List <everything-list@googlegroups.com> Sent: Sun, Jul 31, 2022 8:19 am Subject: Re: The collapse of bitcoin On Sun, Jul 31, 2022, 7:23 AM John Clark <johnkcl...@gmail.com> wrote: On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 8:33 PM <spudboy...@aol.com> wrote: > The aha on your energy observation seemingly would be resolved by huge > electricity making. I will list the electricity makings that are likely to be > ginormous if perfected? That won't help because the energy cost involved in making a bitcoin is also increasing and it's increasing exponentially; there will never be more than 21 million bitcoins in the world because if there are 21 million of them the energy needed to make another one is infinite. Bitcoin is inherently energy inefficient and its inefficiency can only increase. Technically its energy efficiency should increase with each block reward halving. This is because the energy that it makes rational sense to put towards mining is directly proportional to the market value of the block reward. So when the reward is cut in half, as happens every four years, half the miners should go away and half the energy will be put into it. Running the bitcoin network isn't inherently energy intensive. The entire network can be run on a single laptop. What makes it energy intensive are the market forces driving more people than necessary into mining. This, can also be seen as a design feature: the more valuable the network becomes, the more resources are put towards securing it (more miners with more computing power make the network more secure). Market forces are driving mining operations towards the cheapest/free energy sources, such as when powerplants have excess power they can't otherwise use for anything and would be wasted otherwise. Jason Other than it's inventor Satoshi Nakamoto the very first person to ever mint a bitcoin was Hal Finney in 2009, back then a typical home computer could make a bitcoin in just a few minutes, I remember he said on the Extropian mailing list I was on at the time that on a whim he once left his computer on overnight minting bitcoins. He claims that after that he forgot all about it but soon after he was faced with huge medical bills because he was diagnosed with ALS, the same disease Stephen Hawkings had, and about the same time he started reading about the huge increase in the price of Bitcoins. Finney no longer used that old obsolete computer but he still had it at the back of his closet, and the Bitcoins were still on the hard drive, they were more than enough to pay for his medical expenses. Finney died in 2014 and to this day some people think he actually was Satoshi Nakamoto. It may be a coincidence that Nakamoto stopped posting and disappeared about the same time Finney got sick, or it may not be, but it would explain why although he owns billions of dollars worth of bitcoins not a single one has ever been spent by somebody who controls the Bitcoin account of "Satoshi Nakamoto". Even after this recent price collapse Nakamoto is still one of the richest men in the world, and yet he doesn't seem to have ever spent a single nickel of his vast fortune. It's weird. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis3ch -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv1BHpiwwUQDPcqJ66kUxWDuiKLBEqEa%3DK9Zo7gHZryg5g%40mail.gmail.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CA%2BBCJUhRzDCrdqyc5QKDTd5fmWjdDedBNsfM6kgutT4anFU1oQ%40mail.gmail.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/1689467916.2573929.1659316752887%40mail.yahoo.com.
