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Re:Federal Reserve is threatening to sue Bitcoin Mag over pa... by tromp on Friday November 03, 2023 @02:48PM (#38133187)
It is and always will be Hashcash with SHA256d as hash function.
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Re:Federal Reserve is threatening to sue Bitcoin Mag over pa... by absinthe11 on Friday November 03, 2023 @06:37PM (#38135982)
That's an example of sunk cost fallacy, where the miners have spent so much money on otherwise useless ASICs that they obstruct any attempts at progress.
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Re:Federal Reserve is threatening to sue Bitcoin Mag over pa... by CyberDildonics on Saturday November 04, 2023 @01:46PM (#38143386)
That's not a sunk cost fallacy, that's just sunk cost.
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