[immibis]

I hope not. If we find a way to convert water into bitcoins cheaply, we will rapidly boil the oceans. This will be worse than global warming. The biosphere can re-evolve after a CO2 and temperature spike, but all known forms of life require water.

[codethief]

Not sure why you're getting downvoted. You are absolutely right that we likely would end up boiling ourselves, and articles like those below have been discussed here on HN several times:

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2012/04/economist-meets-physicist...

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/07/galactic-scale-energy/

[aristofun]

What a terrible perspective. So many invalid implications embedded in your ignorant comment