[joosters]

Lightning-powered bitcoin mining is obviously the next big thing for green energy!

Now you need a double helping of luck - first that you get struck by lightning, and second that your miner guesses the right hash to make a block. But maybe the two somehow combine? After all, people who survive a lightning strike are said to be so lucky that they should buy a lottery ticket... so following this logic, lightning powered mining would be extra efficient!

Now I'm off to patent my new PoS invention - proof of strike :)

[usrn]

I know a number of people who have been struck by lightning. It seems like you've got a decent chance at survival if you're not touching anything metal.

[sebzim4500]

Do you know a lot of people who stand on top of tall towers during storms?

Otherwise, unless you know tens of thousands of people there is very little chance of knowing multiple people who have been struck by lightning.

[elif]

I also know two people, my mother and a leader at my boyscout camp. Both wearing rubber-soled shoes and survived without needing hospitalization.

Maybe birthday paradox or something similar at play? Only 64 commenters but appears more common than your belief would indicate.

I bet if you are a regular golfer you would know more, and if you spend 100% of your time in a concrete jungle you would know less.

[naavis]

The rubber soles don't mean much, though. The electric current just passed through kilometers of insulation (air). It doesn't care about 2 cm of rubber.

[csours]

It's the kind of story you're going to hear and remember. Lots of rare things are not notable, nothing you would tell a story about. Also, people could be counting near misses as being "hit by lightning"