Isn't the opposite true though? That everything is either directly or indirectly tied to energy?
Cost of disk space vs computing power is just an equation of the energy put into it (mining, manufacturing, marketing, shipping).
Maybe I'm too hungover to think this through. :D
It uses comparably very little energy and the difficulty is not substantially sensitive to energy efficiency because the cost is dominated by space rather than computation.
I don't see how this would equate in the end. If you want to keep the level of difficulty high enough it would have to go hand in hand with real life resources (= energy).
Granted there are complex externalities in the calculation and computing continuously uses energy while disk space is more of an "expend and forget" type of scenario, but to me that would simply result in malicious actors being able to afford to put more resources into it (buying more disk space) until we're at the level of the same energy expenditure.
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Isn't the opposite true though? That everything is either directly or indirectly tied to energy?
Cost of disk space vs computing power is just an equation of the energy put into it (mining, manufacturing, marketing, shipping).
Maybe I'm too hungover to think this through. :D
I don't see how this would equate in the end. If you want to keep the level of difficulty high enough it would have to go hand in hand with real life resources (= energy).
Granted there are complex externalities in the calculation and computing continuously uses energy while disk space is more of an "expend and forget" type of scenario, but to me that would simply result in malicious actors being able to afford to put more resources into it (buying more disk space) until we're at the level of the same energy expenditure.