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Re:What Makes Housing So Expensive? on Sunday April 07, 2024 @02:33AM (#39958645)
Fiat money
Re:Sam Bankman-Fried Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison on Thursday March 28, 2024 @12:57PM (#39854303)
SBF probably killed way more people indirectly (Suicide, homelessness, worse life conditions, ...)
Re:OxidOS Automotive on Sunday March 17, 2024 @01:39PM (#39736264)
Yes its very oxidised
No matter how much you own, you cannot change the protocol's rules, that's the point of Bitcoin and one of the reasons it has to consume energy.
Re:Satoshi – Sirius emails 2009-2011 on Friday February 23, 2024 @11:24AM (#39482624)
Really interesting
Much harder to deploy as the hardware and infrastructure is more complicated than simple asic bricks that can run on every oilfield in Siberia.

Also bitcoin is way more beneficial to society than ML training.

Re:Bitcoin is dead, but it was a good try on Saturday January 27, 2024 @10:46AM (#39156480)
Its very easy to buy bitcoin completely permissionless without kyc on p2p trading platforms like Robosats or Bisq.

Also privacy is easy to achieve by using cashu, lightning or just doing a coinjoin with joinmarket