The Brutal Efficiency of Crypto Mining: far beyond Moore’s law

By Stephen Perrenod on The Capital

Stephen Perrenod
The Dark Side
Published in
11 min readMay 4, 2020

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This is not investment advice. Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are a new and highly volatile asset class. Consult your investment advisor; do your own due diligence.

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Stephen Perrenod
The Dark Side

supercomputing expert, astrophysicist, technology analyst, orionx.net, author of DarkMatter, DarkEnergy, DarkGravity