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Bitcoin did two things to this paper, first it demonstrates that Byzantine fault tolerance has practical applications, and second it demonstrates that anytime y
by yk 8mo ago
Bitcoin did two things to this paper, first it demonstrates that Byzantine fault tolerance has practical applications, and second it demonstrates that anytime you have to deal with Byzantine fault tolerance the question is not "How do I verify this message?" but "Why am I trying to deal with those assholes?"
- noosphr 8mo agoBitcoin manages to consume more power than all the AI systems were wringing our hands over: https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption And provides approximately none of the scant benefits of asking Claude to fix my spelling.
- dchuk 8mo ago*we’re Sorry, had to do it for the irony
- noosphr 8mo agoStill better than bitcoin.
- bryanrasmussen 8mo agojust proves the point, that line was autocorrected by bitcoin, the next line without grammatical errors was autocorrected by Claude. on edit: changed ChatGPT to Claude, this post was written by me. This is the saddest moment.