@Eiregoat @Humpleupagus @sulaco @Floydian_Psychology @KingOfWhiteAmerica @sun >If no one else were doing it on more powerful hardware then yes.
>It's about doing it faster than anyone else. Adding transaction to the ledger is the random mathematical puzzle. They're not separate.

This right here tells me that you do not understand how Bitcoin works. You are conflating the actual ledger(record of all transaction) and the random mathematical puzzle that miners solve to get the prize for maintaining the ledger by adding the latest batch of transactions to it. They are NOT the same thing.