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There is an infinite amount of difficulty in the target nonce

Nothing is free.

Nothing is free

We already have free energy. Wind, sun, waves.

But it is not free to harvest it. Only plants can harvest free energy for free.

But animals and people need to hunt (spend energy), to harvest energy (in other animals).

A lion has to run to kill a gazelle.

People have to create and buy windmills, solar panels etc.

It costs energy to store energy. You can’t store the solar and wind energy after you produced it just like that. You have to convert it to say hydrogene gas or put it in a battery that somebody has to create.

Energy can't be free because even installing machinery to benefit from "free energy" will cost you, so will maintenance

As long as preparing a miner to mine and keeping it mining takes a single second of human effort for any reason, mining won't be free and the hash rate won't climb infinitely.

Free energy would destroy the world via a massive black hole moments after someone decides to plug a free energy device into itself

Bitcoin isn't a goal in and of itself. If we had free energy, we probably wouldn't need Bitcoin.

Energy production will never be free, it can merely get cheaper. Bitcoin mining actually can make our energy grid more efficient, which will overall decrease the production of energy by making renewable energy production more stable and by making fossil fuel utilization less polluting.

...yu...yes ?

Transporting energy is more expensive than producing it

Energy is one of many dimensions encompassing securing the Bitcoin network.

You still have physical mining hardware needed.

That will put some limit on hash rate.

Well... If I had free energy I'd use it to mine bitcoin. As long as you're able to earn a few sats people will mine