[georgia_peach]

Nationality is beside the point. A store of value has to be backed by something (know-how, labor, natural resources, etc.), and these somethings (and their markets) have to be defended (agreements, force, counterespionage...), and all of this consumes a great deal of energy, but good luck finding out what that number is in the media. That's much harder piece of homework than typing a number into a mining calculator, hitting enter, and posting another the-sky-is-falling opinion piece on Medium.