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Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by ForHackernews on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @01:13PM (#19087917)
About 5 years ago, Reddit hired a crypto guy, Ryan X Charles, to make something called "reddit notes"[0] that they could never explain[1]. He wasted his time re-implementing bitcoin in Javascript[2], and was eventually fired.[3]

I guess you could say they were already early pioneers of the "cryptocurrency scam flameout" pattern.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/redditnotes

[1] https://www.engadget.com/2014/12/19/reddit-notes/

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2uadvd/the_real_re...

[3] http://fortune.com/2015/01/30/reddit-notes-is-not-going-to-h...

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Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by bduerst on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @01:23PM (#19088066)
But why not mine bitcoins client-side with millions of mobile users? (/s)
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Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by jules-jules on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @01:45PM (#19088353)
If that would mean staying independent and free from economic/political interference, why not?
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Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by bduerst on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @02:51PM (#19089074)
That would require Bitcoin to be free from economic/political interference first, and given the the block size debacle and concentration of power with the Chinese miners, that's not the case.
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Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by ForHackernews on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @02:26PM (#19088799)
Because users like their batteries?

Because trying to do crypto properly in a language without integers is recipe for disaster?

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