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by imaginenore 4313 days ago
It's not a cost. They spend electricity and get money back. It's basically an indirect currency exchange. They obviously do it because the resulting conversion rate is slightly better than the market rate.
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No doubt people get "money back". Contrast this however with a system where "numbers" (= the new "Randomcurrency") were randomly, or evenly distributed among the general population, which could be done basically for free.

Compared to that, there is a cost, if you will. n powerplants had to be built, or x tons coal had to be burnt to do all the calculations. Does that make sense?