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A comment on Bitcoin still makes no sense. Parent comment
- a stamp uses a small amount of resources no matter how many stamps you want (more stamps may even be cheaper from economies of scale).
- Bitcoin inherently relies on expensive computation to provide safety
- each Bitcoin is more expensive than the last due to increasingly difficult nonces.
- (dumb edge case) you can’t make old stamps so it’s hard to image using a lot of resources to find/make them. Obv not true for other products
Bitcoin difficulty can change in either direction.
- a stamp uses a small amount of resources no matter how many stamps you want (more stamps may even be cheaper from economies of scale).
- Bitcoin inherently relies on expensive computation to provide safety
- each Bitcoin is more expensive than the last due to increasingly difficult nonces.
- (dumb edge case) you can’t make old stamps so it’s hard to image using a lot of resources to find/make them. Obv not true for other products