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Re:The Stacks 2.0 blockchain implementation in Rust by ftlio on Monday February 14, 2022 @02:52PM (#30337328)
It's not a safe assumption that other forms of money exist that are less problematic than Bitcoin. People can and can't buy things using certain kinds of money largely because of the results of war or the threat of war. I'm always amazed at people that are confident the US Dollar machine is more ethical than Bitcoin.

There's simply too much to consider to know for sure, and the experiment of making a better version of money is probably at least worth as much as drying clothes, especially when you consider it's as equally opt-in.

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Re:The Stacks 2.0 blockchain implementation in Rust by UncleMeat on Monday February 14, 2022 @09:24PM (#30341859)
> It's not a safe assumption that other forms of money exist that are less problematic than Bitcoin.

I believe it is. Replace BTC with an identical system except with a reward curve that isn't logarithmic and you have a strictly superior system for the world, except that early adopters no longer make off with gazillions of dollars.

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