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by floatboth 2073 days ago
It's "money" controlled by a few large electricity-wasting pools.
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Still more efficient than the alternatives.

USD is controlled by an entity which spends $680 billion / year along with countless lives and 270k barrels of oil a day in order to defend it.

Gold dug out of the ground, then put in high tech vaults which must be similarly actively defended.