Why Nostr? What is Njump?
2023-06-07 15:27:00
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Alex Mizrahi [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2014-10-28 📝 Original message:> This thread is, in my ...

📅 Original date posted:2014-10-28
📝 Original message:> This thread is, in my opinion, a waste of time. It's yet again
> another perennial bikeshedding proposal brought up many times since at
> least 2011, suggesting random changes for
> non-existing(/not-yet-existing) issues.
>
> There is a lot more complexity to the system than the subsidy schedule.
>

Well, the main question is what makes Bitcoin secure.
It is secured by proofs of work which are produced by miners.
Miners have economic incentives to play by the rules; in simple terms, that
is more profitable than performing attacks.

So the question is, why and when it works? It would be nice to know the
boundaries, no?
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