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by erubin 2942 days ago
ultimately real work that produces actual goods and services has to get done. how does computing hashes "do all your work for you, leaving you to do whatever you want in life"
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Yes, the computer crunches the transactions, and you get rewarded in bitcoin. Why should Visa be the only to profit from something like this?

So this leaves me to do what I want. I can get another job, or not. Who wouldn't want this? Its a simple idea, trade computation for social mobility. There are people doing this all over Venezuela right now.