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Re:Blockchains Considered Harmful: Is Brute-Force Processing... by justifier on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @11:06PM (#15607528)
> It's thermodynamically sound

Due to the algorithms being inefficient

If that is resolved then the entire history will be suspect

And any thermodynamically similar future will have to compete on constants and exponents

Or you could regulate the hardware, 'this blockchain is only compatible with, and so calculated on, a gateway lt1700 with exactly 640k of ram' ;P

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Re:Blockchains Considered Harmful: Is Brute-Force Processing... by hdhzy on Thursday November 02, 2017 @02:12AM (#15608214)
>> It's thermodynamically sound

> Due to the algorithms being inefficient

This is by design, when the hardware gets better Bitcoin network starts requiring even more work, so being "efficient" is actually what is not desired here. See: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Difficulty

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