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Re:Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index by lxgr on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @01:29PM (#26092953)
That would be great, but unfortunately the structure of problems that are well suited to proof of work (hard to compute but easy to verify in a decentralized way) doesn't seem to have too many practical applications.
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Re:Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index by arithmomachist on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @03:27PM (#26094280)
Aren't there lots of NP problems that have this property?
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Re:Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index by lxgr on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @05:05PM (#26095430)
Yes, but how many of them are distributable in the way required by the constraints of mining? (I really hope I'm wrong and would love to see a counterexample of "constructive" mining!)
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Re:Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index by kqr on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @04:09PM (#26094836)
All of them, by definition.
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