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Re:Blockchains Considered Harmful: Is Brute-Force Processing... by diegocerdan on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @09:48PM (#15607186)
8 years to change the value of a constant!
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Re:Blockchains Considered Harmful: Is Brute-Force Processing... by hdhzy on Thursday November 02, 2017 @02:23AM (#15608254)
Remember that Bitcoin is about distributed consensus and for the change to apply a vast majority of users need to approve. Take any other software and see how many people still use old versions (e.g. Microsoft Office). In Bitcoin that wouldn't be acceptable for the change to work.
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