Cool analysis, thanks for posting it. I will look out the book you mentioned recommending a digital commons, in a way this is saying the same thing as I've been recommending for years, a non profit actually solar powered platform, capable of generating and distributing money. I think that is the only way to get a true non profit environment, otherwise utilities energy companies have to be paid bills, and the chain carries on to ultimately energy extracted from Earth.
Recently I've been saying profit itself is the thing directly related to temperature rise, since this has been becoming clearer, we can't get round it, there are massive sums of money which should be being issued to the public for free, to monetise economic product already created from solar energy put to use.
All of it becomes clearer when we mathematically sign energy to indicate what use of it does - adds to Earth or subtracts from Earth.
Do this and multiply everything out, then we start to see that all negative energy use comes with all cascading negative effects, which lock us further into negative energy use. Carbon taxes for example, is a negative move resulting in yet more extraction and more temperature rise.
The opposite applies to positive energy use, issuing the money owed to the public is a positive move, more like rewarding the public for using the right energy, and would rapidly wind temperature back down by eliminating a lot of activity for profit.
Carbon taxes is using money as a weapon, whereas solar indexed stimulus would be using money to empower.
As for Bitcoin and it's relationship to energy, I did an article on that called the Bitcoin Kardashev Hinge, it analyses causes and effects and predicts Bitcoin might one day become a tool for allocation of energy supply, given it has to all become from the sun one day very soon.
If you would like to read more about energy polarity multipliers there is more in Medium but I also just published an Amazon book on it, I would be really interested to hear your comments on it, if you went as far as buying it.
