2013-10-31 IEEE Spectrum: Bitcoin’s Computing Crisis

[Arvicco]

http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/networks/bitcoins-computing-crisis

[1715199666]

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[hacknoid]

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!

[420]

One group's crisis is to another group's benefit. and the former group is not even explicitly excluded from the latter group.

[Gabi]

Lol, crisis, yeah sure, let's make scaring titles to attract more readers 

[420]

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

[aigeezer]

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

xkcd beat us to the meme, as usual:

[TraderTimm]

"Top 10 Reasons Miners Hate Bitcoin"

Yeah, that's pretty much a clickbait article.