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Yes, this is such a disingenuous argument when people say PoW incentivises to use more electricity. It doesn't care about electricity, at best. Also the specific Bitcoin model even incentivises to use less electricity, because for each additional miner that is connected simulateneously, you actually get less paid per GH/(and thus kW), so at a certain point you would just not get paid anything for your electricity.


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