alt Hacker NewsIt's 2026 and there's still people that believe that proof-of-work makes sense as a consensus mechanism
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toenail • today at 7:46 PM
Sure, why should my opinion have changed?
wslh • today at 5:56 PM
There is a breakthrough on a more productive Po(useful)W: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47430951
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Hopefully between this and looming cryptographically relevant quantum computing, this whole house of cards will come crumbling down. And those who invested vast capital to burn carbon in order to evade finance regulations will lose everything. Probably not. But it’s a nice dream.