Computers are used to mine bitcoin. A lot of computers and relatively fast ones. Now amazon web service host video and imagery storage on a lot of computers and relatively fast ones because no one want to have a "DOh" headslap like Homer Simpson and the Janeway download. How many computers does google use or youtube use? It has never been about the energy if it was there would be major outrage over the entire industry.
The only reason power consumption was brought up in relation to mining Bitcoin is to make it the boogeyman of finance and therefor needing to control how and where and who could be allowed to mine it and then use it.
A lot I assume. But it doesn't matter, because they generate wealth for approved business.
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Same thing as happened to the small farmers in America during the mid nineties. It was more cost effective and more fuel efficient for big business to farm than it was for the small to medium farmers. And now the second land grab is underway in America, I don't know if Gates is buying farms in other countries or not, but a land grab by him none the less, just for the sake of control.
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If you want to be rich, you have to own something - and farms are out of the price range for normal people.
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Land of any nature is getting hard to find and own, and in America you really do not get to own the land. If oil or other minerals are found then the companies can come in and destroy your land with out any real permission from the land owner. Most land owners do not even enjoy water rights in America. It is pretty much a mess over here.
Water is going to cause the next big wars I guess..
Seems like when I lived in California there were constant water wars. Most likely there still are they just no longer make the headlines since it is almost a daily thing there, or I think the water wars are still going between the north and south of California with the central valley farmlands caught in the middle.
ENGAGEtokens.I don't think there would be outrage, it would be one of those inconvenient things quietly ignored because "everybody" likes or at least uses Google and Youtube and "nobody" likes being inconvenienced :)
They probably have their own datacentres x_x