https://hackaday.com/2017/07/05/how-do-they-synchronize-power-stations-with-the-grid/
naturally one has to consult the book of knowledge
https://notabird.site/i/status/1567929340737863680
good thread on europe's energy crisis
putin just the catalyst for a slow running train wreck
@ringo @threalist @jmc464 @Matthias_Corvinus @sj_zero the weirdest thing about this article is that it's actual journalism
@jasper without bitcoin wikileaks would have been crushed by financial censorship
@jasper banks cause financial crashes several times a decade
that said, I can see you've made up your mind
@vriska true
@thatguyoverthere @jasper proof of work makes a good deal of sense from a physical/thermodynamic perspective
an alien could come to earth and quickly determine which is the hardest cryptocurrency by checking the hardest hash in each chain - this would give the alien a decent guess at the amount of energy used to secure the chain
just as one could gain a rough estimate of how much effort was put into mining a given amount of gold
bitcoin's PoW uses less energy than clothes driers
@Moon nothing makes me think and I resent the accusation