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Topic: 2013-10-31 IEEE Spectrum: Bitcoin’s Computing Crisis (Read 1164 times)

legendary
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"Top 10 Reasons Miners Hate Bitcoin"

Yeah, that's pretty much a clickbait article.
legendary
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Cryptanalyst castrated by his government, 1952
Lol, crisis, yeah sure, let's make scaring titles to attract more readers  Roll Eyes

thats the standard in publishing and marketing. until public demand switches to more realistic titling and those that do this 'fear mongering' or close go by the wayside; we'll have to deal Tongue

xkcd beat us to the meme, as usual:

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hero member
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Lol, crisis, yeah sure, let's make scaring titles to attract more readers  Roll Eyes

thats the standard in publishing and marketing. until public demand switches to more realistic titling and those that do this 'fear mongering' or close go by the wayside; we'll have to deal Tongue
legendary
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If you want to walk on water, get out of the boat
Lol, crisis, yeah sure, let's make scaring titles to attract more readers  Roll Eyes
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hero member
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One group's crisis is to another group's benefit. and the former group is not even explicitly excluded from the latter group.
sr. member
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Proud Canuck
A crisis for the miners - sure, since you can no longer recover your mining hardware investment costs (especially if you paid in bitcoin).  However, increasing the hashrate and thereby providing more security for the whole network and then call it "bitcoin's crisis" is just a TAD misleading!
hero member
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Please bear with me
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