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I'm not following. Yes, cryptocurrency mining and the buying of it with dollars has effects on the world, but "generate" dollars?? Economic activity doesn't generate dollars. Do you mean the standard metaphorical "make money" which really means "get paid"?

If a single dollar gets pushed around a small economy a thousand times in a day, it is facilitating economic activity, but that doesn't increase or decrease the money supply.



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