One Bitcoin miner is buying 20,000 16nm wafers from TSMC per month
The amount of waste of Bitcoin Mining is incredible.It is all about virtual digital mining, which is to race to find the first hash, that has X number of zeros in the front of it.And this burns an incredible amount of electricity.  And all for what?  Just to show proof of work.Can't there be a more useful usage of cryptocurrency mining to show proof of work?Something that is more relevant to humanity.  Like protein folding?  Or planet hunting?  Or pattern analysis?  Or something else, that can be used to build an AI brain?