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Re:Archivists Are Trying to Make Sure a ‘Pirate Bay of Scien... by someguyorother on Sunday May 09, 2021 @04:44AM (#27094343)
> Add them all together for the ultimate, proof of destruction: cryptocurrency backed by atmospheric pollution, fauna and flora extinction and natural resource exhaustion.

Make a DoomCoin! It would keep 12 difficulty counters, one for each proof of whatever, and getting farthest ahead in one of them lets you mine a new block.

That way it can distort the prices of (sorry, "effectively allocate") CPUs, GPUs, disks, ASICs, RAM... anything else you can come up with.

Sounds like a good project for a comic book villain.

>Can Bitcoin be restored and restarted from one computer with the whole ledger stored on it?

Yes, but it may be very slow the first period, as it would be used to the pre-collapse difficulty level.

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Re:Archivists Are Trying to Make Sure a ‘Pirate Bay of Scien... by alpaca128 on Sunday May 09, 2021 @08:38AM (#27095483)
> Sounds like a good project for a comic book villain

Or a little story in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, describing how a civilization collapsed, not with weapons but by binding all their resources in a recursive speculative bubble.

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