Can anyone explain to me what bitcoin's done to earn all the shade thrown on it? I'm kinda lost. o.o

@retroskunkette Be a waste of a fuckton of computing power, a microcosm of everything wrong with modern day economics, and just generally not that great an idea to begin with, TBH.

The fact it was largely latched on to by libertarians/ancaps doesn't help, either.

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@Thaminga Ohh, right. Judging by the waste of computing power, a waste of components and, even worse, already straining fossil fuel reserves even more.

It's a mess. Who came up with that idea?!

@retroskunkette Some guy from Japan who had no idea what he was getting himself into, IIRC.

And yeah. It's driving up the prices of said components, too. 8D

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