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by EdHominem 3713 days ago
The ones that don't involve a small list of nodes that you are required to trust to get anything done.
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Exactly. Its a matter of trust (i.e. the paranoid part), and we're burning the planet's limited resources so that we feel better about that.
Do you know how many resources we "waste" making non-copyable bills, staffing the Secret Service, running payment networks, etc?