I really really love that Satoshi managed to invent a huge financial incentive to steal other people's computing power and electricity, in a way guaranteed to derail lots of projects in favor of something that is literally designed to create no actual value for the world at allhttps://twitter.com/paulsparrows/status/1261931377433378822 …
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Imagine if cryptocurrency mining was like Protein folding, or researching mathematical theorems, or even just finding novel primes If the output of it had literally any value besides making the blockchain make your money bigger, imagine what could have actually been done
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Replying to @CuddlePotato
That was the pitch behind GridCoin but in the various crypto trading markets GridCoin is currently worth like 0.4 cents
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