William B Travis on Nostr: Energy consumption isn't a demon unless your total energy cost is low enough that a ...
Energy consumption isn't a demon unless your total energy cost is low enough that a single centralized entity can easily capture the hash power. This is the problem with a small "efficient" miner base, distributed or not. When I say security, I'm thinking about network integrity, not opsec. In this case, the biggest network with the most individual miners wins.
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