On: A Bitcoin mine went up in flames, affecting the en...

[adestefan]

Wow it did actually go up in flames. I thought that was just going to be hyperbole in the title, but I was incorrect.

[bfe → adestefan]

Me too. Add fires to energy consumption among the perverse results skeptics will harp on for the arbitrary constraints imposed by bitcoin.

[mintplant → bfe]

Are you saying that energy consumption isn't a problem? Why not?

[mpyne → mintplant]

Because the blockchain is awesome and the government is bad. They'd use bubble sort, efficiency be damned, if they could find a way to keep the bankers out of it.