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Re:Bitcoin's Enormous Energy Costs May Prove to Be Its Bigge... by nategri on Thursday November 09, 2017 @03:21PM (#15665566)
It's all fun and games until Shor's algorithm, anyway. If Bitcoin is broken-in-the-long-term in one way why not admit it's broken in another, and iterate to a better solution.
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Re:Bitcoin's Enormous Energy Costs May Prove to Be Its Bigge... by andrewchambers on Thursday November 09, 2017 @05:38PM (#15666369)
Bitcoin can change it's own code whenever it wants, its not a static thing, it can become a better solution.
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