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   "text": "Proof of work consensus is energetically wasteful because the entire global network redundantly computes wrong nonces, with the Bitcoin network consuming as much energy as the country of the Czech Republic.",
   "abstract": "The Bitcoin network is performing about #)!% =K55,555,555,555,555,555,555 hashes every second in June )5)5. That requires as much energy as the entire country of the Czech Republic.",
   "citation": "Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Contemporary Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782198",
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   "text": "If intelligence becomes post scarce, the binding constraint migrates rather than disappearing, moving to electricity, semiconductor fabrication, rare earth minerals, cooling water, and the compute infrastructure that converts material inputs into cognitive output.",
   "abstract": "If intelligence becomes post-scarce, the binding constraints migrate to the physical inputs that sustain it: electricity, semiconductor fabrication, rare-earth minerals, cooling water, and the compute infrastructure that converts these material inputs into cognitive output.",
   "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, The Collapse of Scarcity Economics (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6421319",
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