Comment Comment by xg15 I find this thread quite hilarious.With PoW + self-adjusting difficulty, bitcoin is quite intentionally designed to encourage ever-higher energy consumption to "secure the blockchain". Yet HN is trying to "well actually"-away the fact that bitcoin is an energy hog. parent xg15 8 years ago
With PoW + self-adjusting difficulty, bitcoin is quite intentionally designed to encourage ever-higher energy consumption to "secure the blockchain". Yet HN is trying to "well actually"-away the fact that bitcoin is an energy hog.