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Mining gold gets harder over time. If you want more gold that's the price you pay. Trust-less consensus may be the same. Nature doesn't care either way.
by sjeohp 8y ago
Mining gold gets harder over time. If you want more gold that's the price you pay.
Trust-less consensus may be the same. Nature doesn't care either way.
- ForHackernews 8y agoNature has nothing to do with it. Bitcoin is a poorly-engineered human-designed, human-built system.
- sjeohp 8y agoMath has everything to do with nature.
- ForHackernews 8y agoEndlessly re-calculating SHA-256 over and over is not some beautiful mathematical principle.
- sjeohp 8y agoFind a better way of guaranteeing trust-less asynchronous consensus then talk.