@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
@11112011 and here i was thinking we going hydro jean
@11112011 haha that's cute
@augustus is Chad simply an American diminutive of Charles