Re:Blockchain Challenge by Bank of England
by logician76 on Monday December 07, 2015 @02:11PM
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But it's unbounded wasteful, why does nobody get that. There is no correlation with proof of work energy spent and actual value of transactions. Even worse, proof of work is almost exponentially getting worse over time.
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Re:Blockchain Challenge by Bank of England
by CydeWeys on Monday December 07, 2015 @03:31PM
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> Even worse, proof of work is almost exponentially getting worse over time.
Huh? Exponentially? The difficulty level is rising exponentially, but that's owing to continued investment in specialized hashing hardware. I certainly don't think that the actual amount of electricity being put into hashing is still growing exponentially. It would only grow exponentially if the price of Bitcoin continued to appreciate exponentially, and that hasn't been the case in years.
Re:Blockchain Challenge by Bank of England
by brighton36 on Monday December 07, 2015 @08:36PM
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The network burns precisely as much energy as is needed to throttle the rate of consumption (roughly 25 btc per 10 minutes). It is bounded by the intrinsic and speculative value of Bitcoin.