firmbeliever

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   Evil ISPs could disrupt Bitcoin's blockchain(theregister.co.uk)

   1 points by firmbeliever 9y ago|0 comments
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   by firmbeliever 10y ago

   Thanks. Does this mean that Google is essentially subsidizing the cost of producing renewable energy, and if so, does that then mean that the consumers of the renewable energy end up paying less because of said subsidy? I'm just tryin
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   by firmbeliever 10y ago

   So if they are still getting their power from the grid, who uses the renewable energy that they purchase?
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   by firmbeliever 11y ago

   Thanks for the reply. I'll check out Ethereum; I'm not at all familiar with it. Seems like you'd then be losing some of the - for lack of a better word - purity of the system. If I understand correctly, part of the point w
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   by firmbeliever 11y ago

   I get how it works with bitcoin - that's why I was saying the incentive is obvious there. The miner makes money. I was asking what the incentive would be to go through the computational effort of creating a block in a system that does
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   by firmbeliever 11y ago

   Question - does the incentive (or lack thereof) of the miners to create the blocks also need to be considered? There's an obvious incentive with bitcoin - you make money. What would be the incentive for me to create a block of (using
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   by firmbeliever 14y ago

   On you would be helpful, but the clothes as combos would suffice.