@5b00f2ed I invoke betteridges law on headlines: if it's a question it can be answered with "no".

...Why do they write this like like the opening for a public speech? I don't get who they think this kind of writing would appeal to and inspire to actually contact them except techbros who are *already* into blockchain.. 

 @gamingonlinux@mastodon.socia lmao.l Bettridges's law of headlines says the presentation is gonna be like "well, no, BUT HERE is why we're SO important that sustainability doesn't matter!!!!!!!" or some other fucking garbage @0f360dc9 

 @5b00f2ed *Sigh* the block chain is even the interesting component of a failure of an experiment 

It's not an accident it's not named blockcoin

It has essentially a single use case, and arguably none w/o a sensible consensus protocol which has yet to be proposed b/c all current proposals don't accomplish stated goals

If there is magic in cryptocurrency its so obviously asymmetric cryptography+merkle tree. 

Hence the  name Bitcoin, as in BitTorrent b/c the common use of merkle tree 

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No, but it could make a handful of grifters very rich 

 @5b00f2ed This is the kind of thing that should be posted to the cryptosnark subreddit r/Buttcoin. 

 @5b00f2ed If it can't save crypto why would we imagine ....... 

 @5b00f2ed buy carbon credits on the BC, play casino with them, lose your money, you lost the credits? they can't be offset anymore! We are doomed and it's your fault