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Re:Money corrupts; bitcoin corrupts absolutely by zepto on Saturday March 13, 2021 @01:24PM (#26448661)
A counterfactual is that those two things would have happened anyway, and the ad-funded model has deeply corrupted both of them.
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Re:Money corrupts; bitcoin corrupts absolutely by rawtxapp on Saturday March 13, 2021 @01:57PM (#26448938)
I don't think there's world with these counterfactuals in place, do you have any proof?
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Re:Money corrupts; bitcoin corrupts absolutely by zepto on Saturday March 13, 2021 @02:25PM (#26449183)
That’s not a meaningful way to discuss counterfactuals.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterfactual_conditional

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