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Re:Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index by Taek on Sunday August 27, 2017 @11:29AM (#15111154)
No that's that makes blockchain so fascinating. It operates well in countries with no infrastructure. Bitcoin is incredibly popular in Venezuela despite being completely illegal and actively hunted by the government, and despite the who country being very unstable.

You can't use a blockchain to protect your land rights, but you can use it to protect digital rights and that means you don't need external resources like courts to spend their time on digital rights. They can focus entirely on land conflicts and other physical matters, which will make them cheaper overall.

Re:Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index by rspeer on Sunday August 27, 2017 @12:19PM (#15111369)
So living off of Bitcoin and the black market in Venezuela is your idea of what we should aspire to?

Even if a few people in Venezuela manage to use Bitcoin (propped up by the US dollar, nobody's selling their Bitcoin for Venezuelan currency), that still easily meets my definition of a failed society.