Comment by BolexForSoup@kbin.social on It’s all a scam, don’t even try to tell me it’s useful

the idea was great

I have questioned this ever since I learned that the more adoption there is, the less efficient mining becomes, ergo more power is wasted accomplishing the exact same task for no extra benefit. Difficulty creates a back asswards system that makes adoption a con.

Mining is only one strategy for concenous, but yes it is a pretty rudementary and inefficient version.

And even in mining there are different protocols, Bitcoin is just intentionally inefficient 🤷

Man, try to make maximalists understand that 🤣

My Excel spreadsheet remains efficiency champion!

Pretty sure there are more efficient databases than Excel for the kind of information stored on blockchains 🤪

Sure, but when even Excel is a more efficient database, that should say something about crypto.

My bad joke was that a real world cost is the point.

Well it’s been over a decade and Bitcoin is still PoW, as well as nearly 50% of the entire crypto market.

Ok… that doesn’t make what they said any less true?

My point is how great can it be if over a decade later the terrible system for mining is still dominant? The more people participating, the worse it gets. We just had texas power companies paying crypto bros to stop mining it’s gotten so bad - and we aren’t even at .01% adoption yet.

You’re chiming in in a way that ignores nuance and implied meaning. I feel like my intention has been pretty clear but if I need to spell it out so be it.

That’s more a question of being first on the scene and the financial impact if Bitcoin maximalists finally accepted that their blockchain is crap compared to other options, that’s what keeps Bitcoin at the top, not how good or bad it is compared to the tech’s potential…

And no your intention wasn’t very clear otherwise I wouldn’t have had to reply how I did previously.

Bitcoin is more religion and cult than anything. Of course they think it’s great or at least able to hand wave criticisms.

And yeah, consensus is a hard problem to solve for. Many have taken the route of least resistance and implemented what is known to work.

Ethereum doesn’t use mining at all anymore. It can get expensive to use though, which layer 2 chains help with

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