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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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