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1. Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2017 15:00:04 UTC Hallå Kitteh

   • The God of Synthetic A Priori 🏴
   @dtluna Meh. The cryptospace is so small that the funds wasted amount to nothing in the grander scheme of things.
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2017 14:29:09 UTC Hallå Kitteh

     • Cryptocurrency
     > So what went wrong?
     
     Nothing!
     
     Worse is better. Billions of dollars have gone into the cryptocurrency system and we have a new dotcom boom.
     
     Most of the money will be spent on the wrong things, but there is orders of magnitude more money going into actually solving the issues displayed by Bitcoin than there would have been had it not escaped the lab. There are orders of magnitude more enthusiasts coming up with ideas around it than there would have been if this stuff had been trapped in academia for a decade.
     
     https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/blog/2017-12/2017-12-30.html
     
     /via https://lobste.rs/s/83bkeh/bitcoin_andromeda_strain_computer
     
     !cryptocurrency
   • LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2017 15:04:08 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

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     @clacke When you consider the trillions of dollars (and that's just what we know about) that were wasted saving the banking system from self-destructing less than a decade ago, any wastage in the #cryptocurrency scene is financially trivial.
     Hallå Kitteh repeated this.