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Re:Cryptocurrency Is an Abject Disaster by rjmunro on Monday April 26, 2021 @11:56AM (#26943962)
The thing is that "improvements in engineering, materials, process, or design" should make it cheaper, not more expensive. That's how it works in other industries.

Although I don't think it's fair to put all the blame on the Fed. The same thing has happened in the UK and many other places.

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Re:Cryptocurrency Is an Abject Disaster by yui43 on Monday April 26, 2021 @11:59AM (#26944004)
> The thing is that "improvements in engineering, materials, process, or design" should make it cheaper, not more expensive.

Only if you’re optimizing for cost, which public infrastructure very obviously isn’t. It’s optimizing for safety.

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Re:Cryptocurrency Is an Abject Disaster by knorker on Monday April 26, 2021 @12:07PM (#26944145)
Environmental impact study, OSHA, etc… are processes that are improvements, that clearly make it more expensive.
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Re:Cryptocurrency Is an Abject Disaster by Sohcahtoa82 on Thursday April 29, 2021 @02:21PM (#26984560)
I find it rather alarming that you equate those improvements with lower cost.

Would it be an improvement to build my car out of wood rather than steel? It'd certainly make it a LOT cheaper!

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