Did you mean Central America?
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Did you mean Central America?
I think folks in the US fail to see that they'll be competing with engineers of other nationalities - regardless of if they're in the USA or outside, and there's really nothing that Congress or anyone else can do to prevent remote jobs (and the trickle-down monies) from leaving the country.
Some 42 million megawatts of energy reach the surface continually and are radiated into space as the earth cools from its initial molten state more than 4 billion years ago. No feasible amount of geothermal development could make even a small dent in this process. Furthermore, the earth’s heat budget is continually replenished by the radioactive decay of naturally occurring elements, and almost all of the energy associated with each decay event is converted to heat. Plus, the heat content of the geothermal reservoir rocks is continually replenished by conduction of heat from the earth’s deeper interior.
For the second, it would depend on easy/hard it is to mine to get to the point where you can replicate a snapshot, and how easy/hard it is to continue mining on from that point. It is very unlikely the new protocol will hold the same value as BTC would have had.
I'd also not like the idea that my life revolves around work - and this sounds exactly like that.