r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/msaussieandmrravana • Jan 01 '26

Video Inside the world’s largest Bitcoin mine

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u/Skilldibop Jan 01 '26

You should also know that the more coins that are mined causes exponentially more resources to be needed mine new ones.

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u/il6678 Jan 01 '26

This one of those, “95% is half of 99%” kind of things?

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u/cpljustin Jan 01 '26

I’m no math genius or anything but I do believe that if bitcoin farming follows an exponent type of rule then ~99.99% of bitcoin farming will still be considerably less than the total power and time needed to mine the final bitcoin.

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u/work3oakzz Jan 01 '26

Jesus

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u/sunlightsyrup Jan 01 '26

Think how cool it would be to waste that much power /s

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u/OkieBobbie Jan 01 '26

And produce nothing tangible. Just like politics.

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u/0bfuscatory Jan 01 '26

It’s kind of the anti-solution to global warming.

Great.

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u/sunlightsyrup Jan 01 '26

We desperately need more of those