Re:Crypto foundation demanded employees endorse suicide pledge
by cowlevel on Monday November 09, 2026 @01:59PM
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Ethereum in particular has some history with that. A long time ago they espoused this principle called "code is law", and then one time the code for something called "The DAO" did something they didn't like, so they overrode the code. To this day the Ethereum consensus rules specify that a certain hardcoded transaction ID should not do what it literally says it does.
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Re:Crypto foundation demanded employees endorse suicide pledge
by TZubiri on Monday November 09, 2026 @05:10PM
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The transition from PoW to PoS is another example, espoused the open ideals of Bitcoin mining, right up until the moment they had gathered sufficient power and members, at which time they closed the gates of ascension behind them.
Re:Crypto foundation demanded employees endorse suicide pledge
by cowlevel on Monday November 09, 2026 @11:50PM
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Hopefully we can agree that PoW is bad
Re:Crypto foundation demanded employees endorse suicide pledge
by TZubiri on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @12:55PM
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I like it, literally revolutionary, to my eyes BTC owes more to PoW than Blockchain. You start seeing it everywhere, related to Taleb's skin in the game concept, or costly signaling in zoology.
Re:Crypto foundation demanded employees endorse suicide pledge
by cowlevel on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @05:10PM
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How much would you increase the world's temperature by to have bitcoin?
Re:Crypto foundation demanded employees endorse suicide pledge
by TZubiri on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @07:11PM
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Probably 0 if I had a choice. But is global warming a problem that is exclusive to bitcoin? Or does bitcoin highlight and accelerate an existing problem that is already a problem through other means, like car/plane emissions and AI datacenters.
Whatever solution we come up with, will work against all sources of warming or environmental damage. Although if one of those measures is banning Bitcoin mining, I wouldn't complain about it.