Cuba’s recent blackout exposed a structural weakness in centralized power grids. When a single plant fails, entire systems can collapse.
Distributed energy and flexible demand could help change that. Bitcoin mining plays an unexpected role by acting as a flexible load that stabilizes renewable grids.
The same decentralised logic strengthens money and disperses power too.
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