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A comment on Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency: Privacy and stability concerns. Parent comment

Re:Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency: Privacy and stability co... by onion-soup on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @05:27AM (#20210947)
>Anyone can mine a gigabyte sized block on their own computer, but that doesn't make it Bitcoin

So you just pulling facts out of your ass? Read the white paper then come back

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Re:Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency: Privacy and stability co... by bduerst on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @01:55PM (#20216113)
>Anyone can mine a gigabyte sized block on their own computer, but that doesn't make it Bitcoin (even when branded as Bitcoin SV).

Is the full context.

Cherry picking the sentence to be patronizing doesn't work very well when the context is actually your own example...

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Re:Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency: Privacy and stability co... by onion-soup on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @07:42AM (#20222425)
Mining is done in data centers. Get over with your 'everybody is a miner' mantra. It was never meant to be that. Check satoshi's early posts. Do you own research before spreading bullcrap
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