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Re:What Happens When Bitcoin Miners Take Over Your Town by wyager on Friday March 09, 2018 @11:47AM (#16552969)
ITT: “The vague notion of ideal resource allocation I’ve come up with after 15 seconds of thought is the correct one.”
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Re:What Happens When Bitcoin Miners Take Over Your Town by Nazare on Friday March 09, 2018 @12:16PM (#16553176)
One could probably intellectually power a small third world country, if one rerouted all the mental energy that went into deriding Bitcoin's energy consumption into something useful (like getting more people to click on ads, HFT, or random gridsearch for GPU deep learning on MNIST).
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Re:What Happens When Bitcoin Miners Take Over Your Town by s73v3r_ on Friday March 09, 2018 @12:20PM (#16553207)
It sure as hell isn't, "That guy has more money, so give it to him."
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