Re:Crypto-currency craze 'hinders search for alien life'
by clarkmoody on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @11:47AM
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The only motive of miners is profit. This is by design. How else could you incentivize a bunch of random people to find partial SHA-256 collisions?
Security is ensured by the economic incentives baked into the protocol. Security is the by-product of economically selfish behavior.
Otherwise the whole thing sounds like the paperclip maximizer justifying its actions: "But if I burn this forest, we will have even more paperclips!"