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Re:China says it wants to eliminate Bitcoin mining by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @08:51AM (#19614051)
> Bitcoin is not about transaction efficiency

Hold on, the response to “Bitcoin is inefficient with energy” is that efficiency doesn’t matter? That isn’t moving the goalpost so much as removing it.

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Re:China says it wants to eliminate Bitcoin mining by keymone on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @09:04AM (#19614133)
you missed a word there it seems?

Edit: seems like you've edited your message. next time try to be more polite and mark your edits.

i'm not saying efficiency doesn't matter, i'm saying primary goals of bitcoin are different.

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