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by spinchange 1750 days ago
Proof-of-work is necessarily a resource-wasteful scheme. I think it's okay to make a moral judgment about that with regard to it becoming the world's most expensive game of guess the number, principally for speculative purposes. We live in a resource constrained real world and this is something exclusively for the world inside of computers but with negative externalities on the real, outside world.