• renard_roux@beehaw.org
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        1 year ago

        A thought — instead of doing worthless math, couldn’t it be something useful like protein folding? Remember Folding@Home? Or cancer research or something?

        I mean I know it’s probably too late, proof of stake bring replaced by that other thing (or was it the other way around?), and maybe the useless math was something that had to do with calculating the blockchain or whatever; I just don’t understand why someone couldn’t have come up with a way to make it have actual value.

        Or maybe they did and I just don’t know about it, honestly couldn’t be bothered to jump on the bandwagon.

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            1 year ago

            Shame the speculators can’t vote for something more useful with their money 😓 You’d think they’d have a moral interest in balancing the scales a bit, what with the money laundering pyramid scheme and all 😅 /s

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        1 year ago

        Modern crypto currency doesn’t have the same energy problems, if we can’t all agree on a common non government controlled currency howv will we ever break the generational control?

        Whats your solution?

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        1 year ago

        I don’t think the MBA-types care about the differences though. They just want to say new words that sound impressive to shareholders