skells @skells@social.cleverlibre.org

@ringo @threalist @jmc464 @Matthias_Corvinus @sj_zero the weirdest thing about this article is that it's actual journalism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyR1xvldigA

the shitposting will continue until morale improves

@jasper without bitcoin wikileaks would have been crushed by financial censorship

@jasper banks cause financial crashes several times a decade

that said, I can see you've made up your mind

@vriska true

@thatguyoverthere @jasper proof of work makes a good deal of sense from a physical/thermodynamic perspective

an alien could come to earth and quickly determine which is the hardest cryptocurrency by checking the hardest hash in each chain - this would give the alien a decent guess at the amount of energy used to secure the chain

just as one could gain a rough estimate of how much effort was put into mining a given amount of gold

bitcoin's PoW uses less energy than clothes driers

@Moon nothing makes me think and I resent the accusation

"the industrial revolution has been a disaster for the human race..."

this essay brought to you by the internet

@rudyschwartz@dobbs.town for context it was our only republican leader that went full genocide on the Irish

@11112011 and here i was thinking we going hydro jean

@11112011 EU crowd in Italy gonna make hay with thhis no doubt

@11112011 haha that's cute

@11112011 Putin HATES this simple trick

"they pretend not to fight
and we pretend not to die"

@11112011 @Terry CIA don't fuck around

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