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No, it's not theft, it's more like a fee, or like torrent clients enabling seeding by default. Mining Bitcoin is a zero sum activity. Fixing open bugs isn't.
by SR2Z 6mo ago
No, it's not theft, it's more like a fee, or like torrent clients enabling seeding by default.
Mining Bitcoin is a zero sum activity. Fixing open bugs isn't.
- slopinthebag 6mo agoI already made an argument about how mining bitcoin isn't zero sum, and it has exactly as much weight as arguing burning tokens fixing issues in another repo isn't zero-sum. And stealing tokens is more akin to stealing money compared to stealing electricity. Just because something has a positive externality doesn't mean it's then perfectly acceptable to smuggle in without disclosing and running without one's consent. Actually it's kind of disgusting to believe otherwise.