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Post by forgottenlord on Feb 10, 2024 13:07:33 GMT -5
Completely confused. How much in raw materials do they need to make worthless coins, or is this energy usage all digital? (Yes, I am bitcoin-illiterate.) I am not an expert, I do not know how it works. However, my understanding is that miners exist to validate transactions - both confirming their history and ensuring that it cannot be fabricated or altered. I have no idea how they do that but I do know that there are encryption puzzles that ask "how long would it take to calculate if you had all the CPUs that exist today" and the answer can exceed the heat death of the Universe Which leads to jokes like this And I've done the calculations before so I know the theory of what goes into those claims - basically, tricks in math that are easier to calculate than they are to reverse engineer. For example, it's easier to calculate the square of the number than its square root. Using that knowledge, I have the educated guess that this is that encryption puzzle but in reverse - you put a lot of energy into creating the code but can very easily reverse to code to confirm the authenticity. And that is what bitcoin miners are doing.
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Post by LA_Randy on Feb 11, 2024 9:24:09 GMT -5
Republican governance.
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Post by LA_Randy on Feb 11, 2024 9:57:33 GMT -5
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Post by LA_Randy on Feb 11, 2024 12:44:06 GMT -5
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Post by mrobvious on Feb 11, 2024 22:25:51 GMT -5
While the idiot right hope the 'right' team wins because of 'politics' (read not 'Taylor Swifts'), I hope the best team wins. As an Illinoian my team will not win anytime soon. It is sports, if you're rooting on a team to lose because someone in the audience likes a player on one of the teams you're probably a fucking moron.
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Post by mrobvious on Feb 11, 2024 23:56:08 GMT -5
Weak, small, stupid, racist, fucks.
Grow the fuck up human shit stains.
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Post by forgottenlord on Feb 12, 2024 1:54:33 GMT -5
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Post by forgottenlord on Feb 12, 2024 2:42:00 GMT -5
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