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    Comment #44119641

    The fleet analogy doesn’t hold. I used the term “lockstep” for a reason. Fleets of cars are not in lockstep. A degraded fleet is worse than no fleet here, there is no 2 are down, 8…

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    Comment #44119525

    Don’t forget that opaque blockchains can have invisible inflation. Transparent blockchains will always be worth more, as the user can verify that inflation has not occurred. This a…

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    Comment #44119249

    We don’t know exactly what happened between 0 and 1, but it’s not really that important, other than it’s “externally verifiable hash”, eg PoW. Real Return”. I think the real return…

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    Comment #44119007

    And just to think of the energy that you wasted arguing this tired point! It’s about trust. You don’t see it has value because you trust in authority. For those that don’t trust in…

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    Comment #44118880

    Source: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=195.msg1611#msg1611 It’s not an apples to apples comparison — I was there in 2013 with the 0.4/0.5 bdb issue happened, it was a spli…

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    Comment #44118579

    Satoshi spent real resources to mine, yes they were negligible at the time, but it was real resources. I recall genesis block took 6 days of hashing at difficulty 1. Vitalik just h…

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    Comment #44118468

    Yes, It’s been performing badly since PoS. Ugh. Satoshi wrote about this. Lockstep. Single Client = Good. multiple client = menace. I’m ignoring Knots because it’s in the menace ca…

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    Comment #44118434

    I was also there. Seemed like a scam, like all those other premined coins that were popular when ETH launched. I stand by that assessment in 2025. I guess technically if you had tr…

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    Comment #44118271

    Cherry-picked timeline… It’s reality dude! It’s the timeline that reflects reality in 2025. Of course if you imagine a reality where ETH PoS was the best and the coin was worth $10…

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    Comment #44118229

    Updated to 60%. Your right I should have verified this.

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    Comment #44118186

    And yet, every ETH is worth much less sats today then when it was PoW. Remember the flipping, lol. All the yields in the world don’t mean nothin’ if the value of the capital is not…

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    Comment #44118032

    It’s not wrong, you just don’t like it, don’t get it. It’s ok; you will eventually. Everyone does. In the scenario I trust the later more than the former! And that’s fine, we have …

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    Comment #44117991

    60% of eth was printed from nothing and sold to insiders on day for Bitcoin! It’s all awful and inexcusable! (Edit for 60%)

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    Comment #44117961

    Ethereum printed 60% of its tokens day one; sold to insiders. and then mined 40% for the illusion of decentralization. Close enough. Premined scam. (Edit for 60%)

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    Comment #44117943

    It’s good that you have identified that PoS and the global fiat financial system are pretty much the same microcosmic scam.

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    Comment #44117920

    https://bitaxe.org/ I guess all those plebs are just imagining mining sats at the edge. Mining isn’t just farms. And farms are not pools. You are regurgitating ETH propaganda that …

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    Comment #44114027

    “I hate TikTok and all those ByteDance Data Centers must be shut down because it’s a waste and I don’t like it”.

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    Comment #44113916

    Nah you just enrich the founders who did nothing except print all the tokens out of nothing. PoS is worthless, it came from nothing, it is worth nothing.

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    Comment #44113899

    You don’t really get how mining pools work. It’s not a monolithic thing. well OK MARA is a proprietary pool, but the rest are made up of people contributing hash. If a state actor …

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    Comment #44113846

    No, you need to buy from an insider. Who bought from an insider. Who bought from an insider. Who printed it from nothing. Meanwhile PoW needs real work. Real resources. Real effort…

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    Comment #44113831

    It’s more that waste energy allows one way process, which is valuable. Valves. Diodes. One doesn’t complain about waste heat from computation in general, if that computation has va…

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    Comment #44113785

    Haha, no. Like in sui where the validators halted and froze? Or Solana where dishonest stalkers rigged the delegated staking auction and stole from other stakers? What you are repe…

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    Comment #44113059

    I don’t think this is anything like past cycles. Blackrock and Nations be playing this time. Stack accordingly.

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    Comment #44113040

    Because it’s not external referencing. It’s all on chain, and any external price of tokens is all in humans minds. Of course, true of Bitcoin too. However, energy is the external t…

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    Comment #43997265

    Only the one big pow coin matters tho. Turns out, PoS coins are worthless! I also dislike energy frugality arguments. They come from a Luddite place. A civilization is defined by i…