knightly [none/use any]

It’s not “less traceable”, bitcoin is a public ledger, literally every transaction is documented on the blockchain for anyone and the IRS to see.

Site reliability engineer here, your application is both alive and dead until the monitoring server pings its health status API.

The article suggests microwatt levels of continuous output.

Good enough for IoT devices, low power radio transponders, and the like.

Ibuprofen for tension headaches, acetaminophen for the rest.