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Nature has nothing to do with it. Bitcoin is a poorly-engineered human-designed, human-built system.

sjeohp on Feb 19, 2019 [–]

Math has everything to do with nature.

ForHackernews on Feb 19, 2019 | [–]

Endlessly re-calculating SHA-256 over and over is not some beautiful mathematical principle.

sjeohp on Feb 19, 2019 | | [–]

Find a better way of guaranteeing trust-less asynchronous consensus then talk.

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