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Re:China says it wants to eliminate Bitcoin mining by ForHackernews on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @07:53AM (#19613670)
Yeah, if it were designed in such a way as to incentivize general purpose computing, or to reward producing the results of some useful scientific or mathematical computation, then I would be less appalled by it.

As it stands, brute-forcing SHA256 on ASICs is just a travesty.

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Re:China says it wants to eliminate Bitcoin mining by clarky07 on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @02:35PM (#19617670)
there are lots of coins with algorithms designed to resist ASICs. Bitcoin just isn't one of them.
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