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the only answers i've see are
"well mining creates more coins and that's what you're doing to help bitcoin"
that's stupid and makes no economic sense
if No money was pumped into bitcoin the bit coin is worth $0 so mining bitcoins which create bit coins, those new coins are worth $0.
so the code is duplicating and creating no real world profit. so how then can bitcoin actually afford to pay you out in real world money?
The only way this works is if when One mines they are actually working on task for the owner.
the owner makes $90 and pays you $30 worth of bitcoins.
on the shady side this might be an attempt to crash a market and profit from a massive sell off.
the owner pays holds more bitcoins then is possible to mine before they cash out. they take a risk and payout people mining coins placing the owner in the negative profit margin as they pay every person who mines. the owner then waits for or creates inflation so that the bitcoin is worth more then they've paid out. the owner then cashs out the stashed coins for real money which causes a market crash and people who have converted real world currency to bitcoins loose thousands.
but that still doesn't account for why it takes so much processing power to do so, if the whole isea was based ff crashing the market then the owner could have just created a low power mining game or code.
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