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Re:Bitmain, the largest mining hardware company, made around... by wyager on Friday February 23, 2018 @07:52PM (#16450942)
> we could dedicate a small fraction of that to engineering better consensus algorithms.

I wish people would dedicate a few minutes to reading about theoretical limits on consensus mechanisms.

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Re:Bitmain, the largest mining hardware company, made around... by umanwizard on Friday February 23, 2018 @11:15PM (#16451628)
Got any links?
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