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		Nursie on March 28, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bitcoin as a Battery It doesn’t even result in more bitcoins. The emission rate is fixed.

hackernudes on March 28, 2021 [–]

But miners are competing for bigger slices of the pie. So more energy does mean more bitcoin (for a specific miner).

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