chriswilmer

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Re:El Salvador adopts Bitcoin as official currency, first country to d... on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @02:51PM (#28448439)

You are correct! The other person is wrong. Transaction volume has almost zero relationship with mining energy usage (there are some very subtle connections, but those nuances are hardly worth getting into for this discussion).

Re:Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index on Saturday August 26, 2017 @05:26PM (#15107561)

This is a stupid comparison. The number of transactions can be increased by a factor of a 1000 easily while holding the amount of energy expended constant.

Re:Beepi Winding Down After Burning Through $150M on Friday February 17, 2017 @11:28PM (#13673612)

Oh weird, this exact comment was also posted on reddit (r/business)

What's going on?

Will the real Satoshi please stand up? (funny)

Posted by chriswilmer on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @07:35AM
from the thisweekintomorrow.com dept.

http://www.thisweekintomorrow.com/will-the-real-satoshi-please-stand-up-vol-3-no-27-3/

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Introducing Ledger, the First Bitcoin-Only Academic Journal

Posted by chriswilmer on Tuesday September 15, 2015 @10:17AM
from the motherboard.vice.com dept.

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/introducing-ledger-the-first-bitcoin-only-academic-journal

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A Transaction Fee Market Exists Without a Block Size Limit [pdf]

Posted by chriswilmer on Tuesday August 04, 2015 @12:20PM
from the dl.dropboxusercontent.com dept.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/43331625/feemarket.pdf

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Re:IBM says it has made working versions of 7nm chips on Thursday July 09, 2015 @03:10PM (#9860058)

I don't think the diameter of a DNA strand is 2.5nm...

Re:A Prediction: Bitcoin Is Doomed to Fail on Wednesday November 27, 2013 @03:33PM (#6810939)

Befuddles eh?

I'll just leave this here... http://www.befuddled.org/

Re:Bitcoin for the Befuddled – Our fancy new book and website on Saturday November 16, 2013 @02:07PM (#6746018)

Co-author writing here. Although we think Bitcoin has (probably) a bright future, the book is really just about explaining how it works (the protocol and the cryptography behind it).