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Re:Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cuts the hash rate of RTX-3... by infogulch on Thursday February 18, 2021 @07:39PM (#26187942)
Nice one

Actually though, I wonder if there's an analogy that could be drawn between the real origin of gold (supernova) and bitcoin (mining a block). Both are created as dense byproducts of a large compression event (bitcoin: transactions; supernova: the rest of the star). ?

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Re:Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cuts the hash rate of RTX-3... by nvader on Thursday February 18, 2021 @08:23PM (#26188296)
There's nothing special about gold, every other heavy element is also a by-product of supernovae. So, the analogy only works on a dully contrived poetic level, unless you also want to compare Bitcoin meaningfully with lead.
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