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by berdario 1892 days ago
The nonce used as input of the mining hash function IS random (or rather, arbitrary).

Comments like the above are a sad demonstration of the fact that, while Bitcoin was originally an interesting technical project... Discussion of it has now been completely taken over by shills that try to dismiss/refute/hide all of the problems with Bitcoin (or the cryptoasset du jour) to safeguard their bet
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Siira 1892 days ago
You’re just deflecting. Your argument is as invalid as “mutations are random so evolution is false.” Randomness in an algorithm does not mean the algorithm is non-converging.
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berdario 1891 days ago
I never said anything about converging or not. My GP's post simply points out that having repeated computations with arbitrary input is wasteful.

"Your argument is as invalid as..." ROTFL

Wake me up when Bitcoin moves to a PoS consensus

(Btw, I recommend whoever is reading to also steer clear of PoS coins... If you want to invest, look elsewhere)

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