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6 sats \ 0 replies \ @0260378aef 5 May 2022 \ on: Why Bitcoin? Bitcoiners' argument for PoW (by Simon Satoshi for European Bitcoiners) bitcoin
Really great explanation. I particularly liked:
It cannot be achieved again by a network made up of participants aware of this discovery since the very thing discovered was resistance to replicability itself.
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In Bitcoin, work is computation. Not any kind of computation, but computation that has no shortcut: guessing. There is no shortcut because there is no progress.
To be honest, I don't think the vast majority of people would understand stuff like this, at all. But that's fine, incrementally you open the eyes of more and more people with high quality explanations like this.
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