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Re:Diamonds Keep Getting Cheaper by tromp on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @11:02AM (#21525612)
> it proves effort has been spent

Diamonds only prove that in a very narrow sense, namely in that some gemstone expert (that you need to trust) can subject the diamond to a battery of sophisticated tests in order to testify to its genuine, non-counterfeit nature.

Bitcoin's Proof of Work is trivially verifiable in comparison.

Re:Diamonds Keep Getting Cheaper by TheGallopedHigh on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @12:33PM (#21526880)
To be contrarian: Bitcoin is only verifiable with a very sophisticated machine and algos...
Re:Diamonds Keep Getting Cheaper by ncmncm on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @08:06PM (#21531717)
I.e. a cheap computer and off-the-shelf software.