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Re:The chip shortage could lead to an era of hardware innova... by geofft on Sunday May 16, 2021 @08:41AM (#27173308)
The real answer, I think, is not to ban the nebulous idea of "cryptocurrency" but to ban (or highly tax) proof-of-work coins or similar schemes where the network requires a large amount of some physical resource to maintain its function.

That will spur innovation on approaches that don't have that requirement.

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Re:The chip shortage could lead to an era of hardware innova... by lupire on Sunday May 16, 2021 @11:48AM (#27174455)
Just tax electricity and tariff countries who don't.
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Re:The chip shortage could lead to an era of hardware innova... by dcolkitt on Sunday May 16, 2021 @09:48AM (#27173683)
There’s already rapid innovation in this direction without government innovation being necessary. Ethereum is switching to proof-of-stake by the end of the year, and partially because of that is already 50% of the way to passing Bitcoin by market cap.
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