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This title implies that a blockchain ledger somewhere resulted in an unresolved descrepancy, most likely duping. The ambiguity specifically includes Bitcoin to
by elif 10y ago
This title implies that a blockchain ledger somewhere resulted in an unresolved descrepancy, most likely duping. The ambiguity specifically includes Bitcoin to maximize sensation. Actually this article is editorially criticising blockchains in general by using a popularity contest metric. What a click-bait waste of bandwidth.
- SamBam 10y agoThis is in bloomberg.com, a news organization devoted to finance. The phrase "numbers don't add up" is pretty standard to describe a poor business plan. I don't think any of their regular readers were click-baited into thinking this article was about some deep issue in the blockchain math, I don't think that many of them have much understanding of what the blockchain, or "duping" is. This article wasn't written for the HN crowd. (To be clear, my very initial reaction was the same as yours, but then I saw the context, bloomberg.com, and it was clear what it was saying.)