[_coldfire]

To bypass paywall, no facebook account needed, drop into console or a bookmark (HN formatting weird, zerobin text there anyway):

javascript:window.location="https://m.facebook.com/l.php?u="+encodeURIComponent(window.l...;

alternative:

https://zerobin.net/?9b41630b08e38f96#FAC6oUt+oqX9fwxhamtom+...

The bitcoin blockchain is a crappy database that's incredibly secure because it's backed by an amazing amount of irreversible thermodynamic energy. Anything you put into it is there forever, even quantum computing couldn't undo anything a few hours old. That's all the public needs to know.

These articles are a bit tiring, despite being an aficionado somewhat keen for a blockchain winter.

[abrkn]

http://archive.is/5g3EU

[sordidasset]

What's a blockchain winter?

[pmcjones]

The analogy is to nuclear winter (life after a hypothetical nuclear world war) or AI winter (after the fall of the Soviet Union led to decreased military-funded spending on AI).