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Bitcoin is broken

Bitcoin Block #544000 contains exactly one transaction. This transaction is the coinbase transaction, whose only purpose is to give newly minted bitcoins to the miner. The mining pool receives 12.5 bitcoins while providing no value at all to the bitcoin users or the bitcoin network. Mining pools are in fact incentivized to not include any transactions in the block since hashing the merkle root...

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Re:How I stole $145 from Google and didn't get caught on Saturday January 28, 2017 @07:45PM (#13510828)
I agree. It was for a research project. I would be happy to pay the $145 plus interest if Google would like to bill me.
Re:Ask HN: Cheap dedicated hosting options for side projects on Wednesday July 06, 2016 @02:56PM (#12045090)
Github let's you host static pages for free. Mega gives you 50GB free storage. Amazon EC2 has a nano option that costs very little.
Re:Suggestions for engineering recruiters in Bay Area? on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @07:36PM (#8994596)
Try Motek Technologies, my friend Marc works there and they are pretty cool. His email is [email protected]