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by sjeohp 2676 days ago
Mining gold gets harder over time. If you want more gold that's the price you pay.

Trust-less consensus may be the same. Nature doesn't care either way.
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ForHackernews 2675 days ago
Nature has nothing to do with it. Bitcoin is a poorly-engineered human-designed, human-built system.
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sjeohp 2675 days ago
Math has everything to do with nature.
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ForHackernews 2675 days ago
Endlessly re-calculating SHA-256 over and over is not some beautiful mathematical principle.
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sjeohp 2675 days ago
Find a better way of guaranteeing trust-less asynchronous consensus then talk.
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