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by TimPC 366 days ago
How about the silly treadmill where we waste billions of compute to compute useless proof of work type behaviours and whenever more compute gets thrown at the problem we just make it harder to ensure there isn't better output. I believe it was called buttcoin or something silly like that.
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And whose biggest claim to fame is allowing for large-scale fraud!