You can do electrolysis. But then you need to store the fuel etc.
That competes with using mined bitcoins to trade for fuel.
That competes with using mined bitcoins to trade for fuel.
You can probably also just join an existing mining pool, and negotiate that they pay you in real money straight away.
> But at least fuel serves a purpose (especially in remote areas!)
Money can be exchanged for goods and services that can serve almost any purpose.
Great...
For local decisions, they should check what gives them the most resources. And that might be 'trying random hashes to trade for goods and services'.
Bitcoin can incentive a local market in a global scope.
Bitcoin is a horrendously horrible virus.
Quite crazy to think about that this virus might be invented all over again somewhere Ina distant Galaxy far far away.