{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Someone made the point that bitcoin isn\u2019t a real currency until you can spend it to buy the electricity your rig runs on, which...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/168316763638/", "html": "<p>Someone made the point that bitcoin isn\u2019t a real currency until you can spend it to buy the electricity your rig runs on, which fair</p><p>Though at that point why\u2019s the utility selling you the electricity rather than mining it themselves</p><p>Now if you could turn energy into bitcoins and spend them to acquire <i>fuel</i>, it might be a decent way for renewable energy providers to span <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_curve\" target=\"_blank\">the gap between</a> peak production and peak demand<br/></p>"}