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If your problem is rodent infestation, yeah, you can use mouse traps. And people can make "better" mouse traps, depending on preferences around cruelty, from gl
by maxwell 5y ago
If your problem is rodent infestation, yeah, you can use mouse traps. And people can make "better" mouse traps, depending on preferences around cruelty, from glue boards to Havaheart. But rat poison is cheaper, simpler, and more effective, specifically second-generation anticoagulants [1].
They're alternatives, with trade-offs. The problem with rat poison and most blockchains are the environmental externalities.
1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29527251 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29527251
- shatteredgate 5y agoTo me the problem with blockchains is that they don't actually do anything except cause environmental externalities. That seems to be their entire purpose, done in the service of keeping the currency deflationary so the early investors continue getting richer off of new participants. I've read countless articles and technical papers about them and, aside from the whole ponzi scheme aspect, I still can't understand why anyone would choose it over any other distributed database that doesn't require transaction fees and a proof-of-something system to keep the system online.