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i tend to think the two sides of the bitcoin: currency and tech; are at odds

when one is useless the other is valuable

there is value to bitcoin because mining is expensive

expensive nonce detection renders the blockchain inefficient

if we had superficial nonce detection the currency would be useless but the tech would become practical




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