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spir-11887	Cooper, Zane Griffin Talley	THE DEEP TIME OF BITCOIN: EXCAVATING THE "WORK" IN PROOF-OF-WORK CRYPTOCURRENCY SYSTEMS	2021.0	3	.pdf	application/pdf	1312	71	43	THE DEEP TIME OF BITCOIN: EXCAVATING THE “WORK” IN PROOF- OF-WORK CRYPTOCURRENCY SYSTEMS Zane Griffin Talley Cooper University of Pennsylvania The generation1 of Bitcoins requires a radically, intimately material relationship between information and energy–a relationship that is often dirty, messy, heavy, and above all things, extremely hot. While all data infrastructures depend on vast amounts of thermal maintenance (Moro, 2021), as a single-purpose data practice, proof-of-work (PoW) blockchain systems, and Bitcoin specifically, bring these thermocultural relationships (Starosielski, 2016) into sharp relief, and at a profoundly large scale.	cache/spir-11887.pdf	txt/spir-11887.txt