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Re:Sleeping beauty Bitcoin wallets wake up after 14 years to... by la_fayette on Saturday July 05, 2025 @04:03AM (#44470950)
> What exactly does bitcoin offer the world today?

It is a highly reliable, global-scale P2P software system, we can analyse, experiment with and learn from.

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Re:Sleeping beauty Bitcoin wallets wake up after 14 years to... by edhelas on Saturday July 05, 2025 @05:15AM (#44471301)
.torrent be like: hold my beer
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Re:Sleeping beauty Bitcoin wallets wake up after 14 years to... by FabHK on Saturday July 05, 2025 @07:39AM (#44472029)
Global scale using 1% of world electricity that can do 7 transactions per second, because the thousands and thousands of nodes don't trust each other and all do the same work.
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