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Re:Whale Watching: Many companies earn a huge portion of sal... by xtreme on Friday December 08, 2017 @03:58PM (#15881989)
Assuming this not a sarcastic comment, whose necks did the "Bitcoin billionaires" step on?
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Re:Whale Watching: Many companies earn a huge portion of sal... by tomlor on Friday December 08, 2017 @04:15PM (#15882103)
The people buying Bitcoins now?
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Re:Whale Watching: Many companies earn a huge portion of sal... by s73ver_ on Friday December 08, 2017 @04:16PM (#15882108)
The environment, if the reports of the electricity usage of BTC are accurate.
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Re:Whale Watching: Many companies earn a huge portion of sal... by smt88 on Friday December 08, 2017 @04:53PM (#15882394)
This is very similar to mineral mining in the physical world: a small number of people create immense wealth while leaving huge costs of environmental destruction to the rest of us.
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Re:Whale Watching: Many companies earn a huge portion of sal... by maxxxxx on Friday December 08, 2017 @04:29PM (#15882215)
There is a good chance that they will be stepping on the necks of the people who are buying Bitcoin now. Bitcoin is still a zero sum game.
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Re:Whale Watching: Many companies earn a huge portion of sal... by googletazer on Friday December 08, 2017 @05:33PM (#15882681)
Its more along the lines of - whose tea and coffee did they pour salt in?

Its incredible that for a tech related site like HackerNews so many here are salty about people getting wealthy off technology.

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