Re:In defense of cryptocurrency
by ufo on Friday June 10, 2022 @05:24AM
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Making backups of a centralized database is not reinventing a blockchain, it is much cheaper than the wasteful process of crypto mining.
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Re:In defense of cryptocurrency
by yellowapple on Friday June 10, 2022 @07:02AM
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> Making backups of a centralized database is not reinventing a blockchain
Maintaining read replicas and coordinating writes across all of them starts to look a lot like one after a certain point.
> it is much cheaper than the wasteful process of crypto mining.
It almost as if not all blockchains involve mining.