[yk]

Bitcoin did two things to this paper, first it demonstrates that Byzantine fault tolerance has practical applications, and second it demonstrates that anytime you have to deal with Byzantine fault tolerance the question is not "How do I verify this message?" but "Why am I trying to deal with those assholes?"

[noosphr]

Bitcoin manages to consume more power than all the AI systems were wringing our hands over: https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption

And provides approximately none of the scant benefits of asking Claude to fix my spelling.

[dchuk]

*we’re

Sorry, had to do it for the irony

[bryanrasmussen]

just proves the point, that line was autocorrected by bitcoin, the next line without grammatical errors was autocorrected by Claude.

on edit: changed ChatGPT to Claude, this post was written by me. This is the saddest moment.

[noosphr]

Still better than bitcoin.