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Re:Bitcoin's mining difficulty has increased by 41.9% over t... by lmm on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @06:33AM (#10777112)
> (Note I work on Bitcoin Core and co-founded Blockstream, a prominant bitcoin company. The value of Bitcoin is not the currency, but rather what censorship-resistant, distributed global consensus gives us.)

You can get that while being less deflationary though, e.g. Dogecoin.

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Re:Bitcoin's mining difficulty has increased by 41.9% over t... by maaku on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @06:59AM (#10777214)
Or Freicoin, which I co-authored with another Blockstream founder. But neither has the network buy-in and security of Bitcoin.
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