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Re:Bitcoin has computed 2^83.9 hashes by amalag on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @04:58PM (#10976458)
A consensus system like Ripple makes a lot more sense. Blockchain and hashing is ridiculous when there are better ways to achieve the goals.
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Re:Bitcoin has computed 2^83.9 hashes by Rmilb on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @05:04PM (#10976507)
Too bad ripple was premined. They are seeing some success as end points with banks though.
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Re:Bitcoin has computed 2^83.9 hashes by amalag on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @08:58PM (#10985504)
No one cares about "premining" accept miners. They don't care about miners, they care about being in the real world with banks. See what they have done in 2015. https://ripple.com/insights/ripple-2015-a-year-in-review/

This is what they posted about 2016: https://ripple.com/insights/2016-will-be-the-year-you-realiz...

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