"Currencies are one of the best applications of distributed adversarial consensus." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16707956 …pic.twitter.com/VKd1pup04Q
heartened by everybody's eagerness to participate in cryptographic wizard crimes
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"Currencies are one of the best applications of distributed adversarial consensus." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16707956 …pic.twitter.com/VKd1pup04Q
"When we are talking about crypto currencies, it is a distributed database with a consensus mechanism that is extremely costly to run. But this is not something you would need or want in most other situations, because there is always some degree of trust" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16707778 …
🤖 Sonya Mann 🎀 Retweeted Balaji S. Srinivasan
I do agree with the point below — the blockchain may not be the solution to literally every technical problem, but it's still pretty dang phenomenalhttps://twitter.com/balajis/status/979476334551289856 …
🤖 Sonya Mann 🎀 added,
"17 second clearing times" uh what altcoin nobody uses are we talking about here
well it ain't BTC, BCH or ETH, i'm just sayin'
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