Just curious what happens when energy becomes free.
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50 sats \ 0 replies \ @immutable 7 Aug 2023
The Lost Century: And How to Reclaim It
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt27680530/
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22 sats \ 1 reply \ @nullcount 7 Aug 2023
There is an infinite amount of difficulty in the target nonce
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @llamabyte 8 Aug 2023
Antminer 98546X
use the nearest supernova to get those fee's
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81 sats \ 0 replies \ @clr 7 Aug 2023
Nothing is free.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @sudonaka 7 Aug 2023
Nothing is free
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41 sats \ 1 reply \ @Storyteller 7 Aug 2023
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.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Eximpius 7 Aug 2023
Plants do not harvest energy for free. Seeds have stored energy from the previous plant and plants have to use water and carbon dioxide to create glucose with that sunlight. That process is not “free”. They need some glucose(sugar) to start with.
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @oppongankrah 7 Aug 2023
Energy can't be free because even installing machinery to benefit from "free energy" will cost you, so will maintenance
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @pillar 7 Aug 2023
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.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @supertestnet 7 Aug 2023
Free energy would destroy the world via a massive black hole moments after someone decides to plug a free energy device into itself
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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 7 Aug 2023
Bitcoin isn't a goal in and of itself. If we had free energy, we probably wouldn't need Bitcoin.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @arcanox 8 Aug 2023
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.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @llamabyte 8 Aug 2023
...yu...yes ?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @faithandcredit 7 Aug 2023
Transporting energy is more expensive than producing it
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @fedelang 7 Aug 2023
Energy is one of many dimensions encompassing securing the Bitcoin network.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Wumbo 7 Aug 2023
You still have physical mining hardware needed.
That will put some limit on hash rate.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @2bithits 7 Aug 2023
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
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @DeltaClimbs 8 Aug 2023 outlawed
stackers have outlawed this. turn on wild west mode in your /settings to see outlawed content.
142 sats \ 0 replies \ @nemo 7 Aug 2023
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