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Bitcoin is a sink, not a battery. You can dump excess power into it, but you can't take it out.

The aluminum analogy is apt, but at least I can cook eggs on aluminum pans and wrap my leftovers in tinfoil, even if I can't turn it back into electricity. Bitcoin and other PoS schemes have no such upside.




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