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Bitcoin miners can’t drain resources forever

Bitcoin Miners Are on a Path to Self-Destruction — Noah Smith

Many of the complaints about Bitcoin over the years have been overhyped. But the cryptocurrency's increasing use of real physical resources — energy and computer chips — can no longer be ignored. If Bitcoin wants to avoid government crackdowns, it needs to shift to technologies that don't require constant massive resource consumption just to maintain the currency's price.

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