If only we could send a self-replicating machine that builds raspberry pis and solar panels to the moon with an uplink.
Then the difficulty would jump and we'd need to send one to Jupiter.
Then to mercury to set up the dyson swarm.
Suddenly we are a Kardashev civ... but it's all for bitcoin mining for rich billionaire paranoia of centralized currency control by the US government, and the actual bitcoin production rate is constant since the difficulty rate on the coins exploded from galaxy-spanning miner fleets.
Then the difficulty would jump and we'd need to send one to Jupiter.
Then to mercury to set up the dyson swarm.
Suddenly we are a Kardashev civ... but it's all for bitcoin mining for rich billionaire paranoia of centralized currency control by the US government, and the actual bitcoin production rate is constant since the difficulty rate on the coins exploded from galaxy-spanning miner fleets.