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> the article goes on about how the computational power is a fee for no other reason except to discredit the IOTA devs Well someone has to buy hardware and pay
by kogepathic 9y ago
> the article goes on about how the computational power is a fee for no other reason except to discredit the IOTA devs
Well someone has to buy hardware and pay for electricity to run the computers.
Computational power is not free, unless you're running a botnet or something.
> people have an abundance of computational power and can process IOTA transactions
And they get in return... ?
A warm fuzzy feeling for having paid money for hardware and electricity so someone else can put something on a blockch-- whoops, I mean a "Tangle."
- ringaroundthetx 9y agoyeah but I didn't ask you or anyone about that, or say that it wasn't a form of a fee, I was explaining what the grand parent comment saw as obvious as it was obvious to me too.