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Title: 2013-10-31 IEEE Spectrum: Bitcoin’s Computing Crisis Post by: Arvicco on October 31, 2013, 06:08:39 PM http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/networks/bitcoins-computing-crisis
Title: Re: 2013-10-31 IEEE Spectrum: Bitcoin’s Computing Crisis Post by: hacknoid on October 31, 2013, 06:45:28 PM A crisis for the miners - sure, since you can no longer recover your mining hardware investment costs (especially if you paid in bitcoin). However, increasing the hashrate and thereby providing more security for the whole network and then call it "bitcoin's crisis" is just a TAD misleading!
Title: Re: 2013-10-31 IEEE Spectrum: Bitcoin’s Computing Crisis Post by: 420 on October 31, 2013, 07:34:28 PM One group's crisis is to another group's benefit. and the former group is not even explicitly excluded from the latter group.
Title: Re: 2013-10-31 IEEE Spectrum: Bitcoin’s Computing Crisis Post by: Gabi on October 31, 2013, 07:36:56 PM Lol, crisis, yeah sure, let's make scaring titles to attract more readers ::)
Title: Re: 2013-10-31 IEEE Spectrum: Bitcoin’s Computing Crisis Post by: 420 on October 31, 2013, 07:43:46 PM Lol, crisis, yeah sure, let's make scaring titles to attract more readers ::) thats the standard in publishing and marketing. until public demand switches to more realistic titling and those that do this 'fear mongering' or close go by the wayside; we'll have to deal :P Title: Re: 2013-10-31 IEEE Spectrum: Bitcoin’s Computing Crisis Post by: aigeezer on October 31, 2013, 07:58:12 PM Lol, crisis, yeah sure, let's make scaring titles to attract more readers ::) thats the standard in publishing and marketing. until public demand switches to more realistic titling and those that do this 'fear mongering' or close go by the wayside; we'll have to deal :P xkcd beat us to the meme, as usual: http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/headlines.png Title: Re: 2013-10-31 IEEE Spectrum: Bitcoin’s Computing Crisis Post by: TraderTimm on November 01, 2013, 12:43:05 AM "Top 10 Reasons Miners Hate Bitcoin"
Yeah, that's pretty much a clickbait article. |
