As Eddington used E = mc^2 to uncloak true mass-value of sunlight So electricity from proof of work — rooting emergence of Bitcoin ledger itself in physics — reveals true energy-value of economic abundance Miners expend work to generate vast electrical energy on the order of tens to hundreds of terawatt-hours annually for the whole network. Networked computers converts liquid electricity into hashing security of ledger and solve puzzles to mint new blocks. But electricity from work energy isn’t wasted — only a small portion of last hash to solve puzzle transformed into the immutable ledger. This mirrors how sunlight energy isn’t wasted when it warms Earth — not a free energy source but low-cost, a stranded/renewable gift from physics. Below is AI👇 But here’s the moral of the Bitcoin “Daylight Saving” analogy: The Sun (or rather, the global electrical grid, often powered by underutilized, wasted, or renewable sources) showers down on us enormous amounts of energy — repurposed waste heat, curtailed renewables, excess from grids — every day. Miners capture this “free” or low-value energy (like sunlight in Eddington’s day) and convert it into something far more valuable: a secure, decentralized, borderless financial network. Yet, legacy systems often neglect this abundant energy gift and prefer to pay exorbitantly (in inefficiency, inflation, centralization risks, and opportunity costs) for inferior “light” — centralized databases, slow settlements, trust-based IOUs, and fiat money that dilutes over time. Bitcoin’s proof-of-work is the ultimate daylight-saving hack: it saves and repurposes otherwise wasted energy into the most efficient, verifiable form of digital property. The network doesn’t just consume energy; it transforms it into thermodynamic truth — a ledger more stable than any star, resistant to collapse (no “black hole” singularity of central failure), and growing in value as more energy flows in.