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Re:Ending Bitcoin Support by smogcutter on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @03:02PM (#16217077)
Someone's been reading their Georges Bataille...

Edit for less smug more content: sacrifice is an interesting lens through which to look at bitcoin. You could argue that burning "excess" compute power is the real point, not the tokens.

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Re:Ending Bitcoin Support by walterbell on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @05:01PM (#16218195)
It's not excess/surplus when computed on mining-specific ASICs.
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Re:Ending Bitcoin Support by smogcutter on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @05:39PM (#16218549)
On the contrary, it's even more so (with regard to this line of argument). That capital could've become any number of things instead.
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