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by Slikey 1955 days ago
He means a Dyson swarm and we are not centuries away from achieving this. The economical sense is on a different paper. Having ASIC miners in space connecting to something like Starlink is entirely possible even though not cost effective. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere#Dyson_swarm
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Go ahead and do the math on how long it would take to launch enough bots to match current energy spend on earth.