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Re:It can all go to zero by inyourtenement on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @02:22PM (#16161340)
If everybody woke up at once, came to their senses, and realized bitcoin was all just a waste of time and literal energy, and turned off their machines, bitcoin would be "shut down".
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Re:It can all go to zero by jen729w on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @04:01PM (#16162530)
It takes a cynical person indeed to think that Bitcoin is “a waste of time”. Love it or hate it, it’s an amazing idea.

Waste of energy, however, is harder to argue with. Hence PoS etc.

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Re:It can all go to zero by fastball on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @02:50PM (#16161659)
Nope, because then the next day someone would start mining again in the hope that people would want BTC someday.
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Re:It can all go to zero by inyourtenement on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @03:05PM (#16161831)
That is a wild assumption.
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