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According to Satoshi, dependence on thermodynamics is a feature to prevent centralization.

> dependence on thermodynamics is a feature to prevent centralization

Never underestimate humanity's willingness to destroy itself in the quest for wealth and power.

Doesn't seem to be working so fine now, is it?

Also I wouldn't put behind well financed groups that hire PhDs to find a way to accelerate the PoW enough to gain a significant advantage (as in, ability to centralize the blockchain).

The funny thing is that even if you found some magical hardware that was 100x more efficient than the next best thing, the incentives make it so that you don't want to use 0.01X energy to produce Y hashes and mine the same proportion of coins, you'd want to use X energy to produce 100Y hashes so you mine a larger proportion of coins.

> accelerate the PoW

That wouldn't do anything to energy consumption. It would just increase the hash rate.

The group with access to that technology would be able to centralize hashing.

Because it's all a scam to make fast and easy money.

I mean humanity is inevitably thermodynamically doomed. So is the universe.