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It always bothered me how computer engineers who try to conserve energy and optimize all the time were excited by the wasteful Bitcoin implementation only becau
by nikolay 9y ago
It always bothered me how computer engineers who try to conserve energy and optimize all the time were excited by the wasteful Bitcoin implementation only because they see a potential in it to increase their wealth. It's like glorifying random sort because we haven't invented the bubble sort yet!
- feedjoelpie 9y agoIf you're talking history, I don't think that's quite fair. The whole hash-based algorithm was just the most mathematically simplistic way to make the idea work. It still is. If you're talking present-day, yeah, mostly Bitcoin hoarders don't want to see any change that might make their currency start functioning like a currency instead of fake gold.