You might know Maxwell's demon, but do you know Szilard's?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_in_thermodynamics_and_information_theory#Szilard's_engine
This idea, that acquiring information is somehow equivalent to a reduction of entropy, feels very resonant with proof of work.
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