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Re:Bill Gates Says that Bitcoin is bad For the Planet by vntok on Monday March 08, 2021 @12:01PM (#26388096)
No one here is arguing for replacement of military force, your brain got stuck by a common fallacy it seems.

Notice how displacing some military force usage by changing the motivation or capability for intervention (for example to maintain a currency advantage) might be in itself a Good Thing (tm) and how it does not require replacing armed forces entirely.

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Re:Bill Gates Says that Bitcoin is bad For the Planet by UncleMeat on Monday March 08, 2021 @12:13PM (#26388279)
"You get a choice between bitcoin mining and military force"

That was literally a quote from the post being responded to.

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Re:Bill Gates Says that Bitcoin is bad For the Planet by vntok on Monday March 08, 2021 @02:27PM (#26390346)
Not sure what you are going for here. Indeed, reading a single sentence without considering context typically leads one to faulty conclusions. Note that the previous sentence in the parent post is "Consensus (probably, I am doubtful of PoS) isn't free."
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Re:Bill Gates Says that Bitcoin is bad For the Planet by nelsontodd on Monday March 08, 2021 @12:17PM (#26388343)
'You get a choice between bitcoin mining and military force' to solve the consensus issue.

Bitcoin doesn't solve, for example, hate crimes or something like this.

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Re:Bill Gates Says that Bitcoin is bad For the Planet by vntok on Monday March 08, 2021 @02:29PM (#26390369)
Yes it is truly amazing how bad people are at reading and how fast they are at reaching (bad) conclusions from they already bad read.
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