Over 2 percent of the US’s electricity generation now goes to bitcoin

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Over 2 percent of the US’s electricity generation now goes to bitcoin
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Over 2 percent of the US’s electricity generation now goes to bitcoin::US government tracking the energy implications of booming bitcoin mining in US.

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Honestly eth just made more progress between built in smart contracts and proof of stake, I'm surprised Bitcoin is still holding on. Sunk cost fallacy I guess.

I'm not an economist or anything, but I don't think it's a sunk cost fallacy I think it's just a market. They're all mining both. Just leaning heavier on whichever one makes them more money in the moment. The market is going to have a hell of a lot of inertia.

The market is run by people, and people have been proven not to be rational. So, sunk cost easily applies to the market

Come on, that's logic 101

All a are b

some b are c

all a are not c.

You can't even claim that most A are C with that logic

I can't quite follow you beyond the fact that in your example "all A are not C" is correct

That's a good point a lot of the crypto markets influence is still more focused as an investment vehicle for getting more fiat wealth, that's more reasonable to me. I guess I am just a die hard engineer and the practical uses matters a lot more than the price of tulips.

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