A faster, more efficient cryptocurrency

Re:A faster, more efficient cryptocurrency by sjeohp on Monday February 18, 2019 @05:15PM (#19194985)

Mining gold gets harder over time. If you want more gold that's the price you pay.

Trust-less consensus may be the same. Nature doesn't care either way.

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Re:A faster, more efficient cryptocurrency by ForHackernews on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @06:13AM (#19198162)

Nature has nothing to do with it. Bitcoin is a poorly-engineered human-designed, human-built system.

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Re:A faster, more efficient cryptocurrency by sjeohp on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @02:13PM (#19201842)

Math has everything to do with nature.

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Re:A faster, more efficient cryptocurrency by ForHackernews on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @04:21PM (#19202934)

Endlessly re-calculating SHA-256 over and over is not some beautiful mathematical principle.

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Re:A faster, more efficient cryptocurrency by sjeohp on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @05:31PM (#19203545)

Find a better way of guaranteeing trust-less asynchronous consensus then talk.

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