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It's unclear to me how ASICs used for mining are weapons.
by cinntaile 5y ago
It's unclear to me how ASICs used for mining are weapons.
- Jordrok 5y agoI suppose you could call them weapons of environmental destruction.
- cinntaile 5y agoI suppose you could call everything produced by man weapons of environmental destruction, but that doesn't make it very useful.
- trutannus 5y agoYou dilute the meaning of the word at that point. Weapons are specific tools that are used with intent to cause harm. If something happens to cause harm without intent, and you define it as a weapon, the word becomes useless.
- cinntaile 5y agoYou formulated it clearer and better than I did.
- formerkrogemp 5y agoI suppose in the sense that concentration of mining power makes a cryptocurrency vulnerable to 51% attacks or that concentration of mining power centralizes influence and cryptocurrency in a way philosophically antithetical to the principle of decentralized cryptocurrencies.