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Re:Why Bitcoin Can't Help the Poorest, Yet by danharaj on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @08:20PM (#10898990)
I wouldn't call that a tragedy of the commons. I would call that "capitalism" because it is exactly the relationship between the owners of the means of production and everyone else.

"But anyone can become a miner" so it's free as in market and fair as in game. /s

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Re:Why Bitcoin Can't Help the Poorest, Yet by bduerst on Thursday January 14, 2016 @12:07AM (#10899745)
It's tragedy of the commons because the miners are trying to reap from a shared resource, with no alignment to the changes that are beneficial for Bitcoin.
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