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I wish -coin and crypto- articles/posts would stay away from HN.
Submit and upvote other, better articles and flag those you think are inappropriate. Help make HN the place you want it to be.
I wish -coin and crypto- articles/posts would stay away from HN.
I wish -coin and crypto- articles/posts would stay away from HN.
Tldr: I built a superminer in 2013 for a client. If he would have paid me in bitcoin, then those bitcoins would have been stolen by now. Bitcoin mining uses way too much electricity, now it is 35 terawatt hours at this rate: 2019 > USA,2020 > World
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Submit and upvote other, better articles and flag those you think are inappropriate. Help make HN the place you want it to be.
I am but one person and, despite me doing everything you suggest (well except submit, because others always beat me to the punch there), it's a massive uphill battle. This place is slowly turning into reddit, where folks upvote buzzwordy article titles and move on to upvote the next.
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I'm pretty sure the author understands sha256: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=pd-IjLcAAAAJ
Shh. airbreather has money in bitcoin. Don't confuse him/her with facts. :)
I like the look of Universa currently to try and address a lot of the POW issues and also the hard fork and Kitties type problems from full decentralisation.
Too many inaccuracies in this article to be believable. Yes, POW is a problem but reading this article I doubt the author ever designed mining hardware, description of sha256 is wrong for one, whole thing smells.
I'm pretty sure the author understands sha256: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=pd-IjLcAAAAJ
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I am but one person and, despite me doing everything you suggest (well except submit, because others always beat me to the punch there), it's a massive uphill battle. This place is slowly turning into reddit, where folks upvote buzzwordy article titles and move on to upvote the next.
If you're not willing to help make it better, comments like the one you posted just make it worse by adding unhelpful noise, as is this one. The "place is slowly turning into reddit" trope is old and likewise does nothing to make things better. Yes, it does take effort: most good things do. It's much easier to vandalize than to construct. Please help, not hinder.
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If you're not willing to help make it better, comments like the one you posted just make it worse by adding unhelpful noise, as is this one. The "place is slowly turning into reddit" trope is old and likewise does nothing to make things better. Yes, it does take effort: most good things do. It's much easier to vandalize than to construct. Please help, not hinder.
You clearly read (or retained) only the parts of my comment that you wanted to. Read it again.
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You clearly read (or retained) only the parts of my comment that you wanted to. Read it again.
You're right that I neglected to comment on the fact that you say you do everything but submit articles, and I should have pointed that out. Thank you for doing that! I instead focussed on additional ways to make HN better. It's both how one contributes and how one doesn't. I hope you take this in the spirit it's intended. Your initial comment indicates you want HN to be better. These are strategies to do so.