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All the such energy/BTC arguments miss that BTC (and other crypto) mining in space has no limit and will become feasible when Starships start flying. And it looks to be more profitable than asteroid mining :)

People frequently raise the issue of cooling in space while missing the fact that at 60C 1m2 radiates away 700w - enough to cool 3-4 mining GPUs which can basically be just slapped on that heatsink.

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Surely the cost of blasting mining rigs into space would vastly outweigh any disadvantages of keeping them on the ground.

Not sure. For example at $100/kg blasting a manufactured home into space is comparable to getting a land to put it in Silicon Valley. The point here is that such low price of space access will drastically change a lot of calculations.

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