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Kevin Karhan :verified:<a href="https://berlin.social/@cobordism" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@cobordism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/@hyc" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@hyc</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/@voxel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@voxel</a> Noone claims that <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Monero" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Monero</a> will help "<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/AbolishCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AbolishCapitalism</a>"!<ul><li>That would be deranged and in complete denial of reality.</li></ul>What is however evident is that only <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/PostPrivacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PostPrivacy</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Shitcoins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Shitcoins</a> can do <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ProofOfStake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ProofOfStake</a> as unlike <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ProofOfWork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ProofOfWork</a> it inherently necessitates <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/PostPrivacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PostPrivacy</a> as in <a href="https://mastodon.social/@hyc/114638342299449486" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">all transactions and amounts are public.</a><ul><li>I'm pretty shure that <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/PoS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoS</a> cannot be implemented (even if <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Monero" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Monero</a> devs wanted it to!) without making removing Monero's <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#privacy</a> that it can retain under <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/PoW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoW</a>.</li></ul>Again: I call it <a href="https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/114638656071829798" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">"least worst"</a> for a reason; not "great", "good" or even "okay"...

Kevin Karhan :verified:<a href="https://berlin.social/@cobordism" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@cobordism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/@hyc" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@hyc</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/@voxel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@voxel</a> no, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ProfOfStake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ProfOfStake</a> does concentrate wealth by virtue of having a minimum cap to allow for participation.<ul><li>In case of <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Ethereum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ethereum</a> that <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/PoS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoS</a> cap was (please feel free to correct me) at 10 ETH, so deep in tue 6-figure (€) area...</li></ul>With <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ProofOfWork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ProofOfWork</a> there is at least no minimum <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/hashrate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hashrate</a> to participate and participating in a <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/pool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pool</a> dies not necessitate to trust someone with funds.<ul><li>OFC I don't deny that <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/PoW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoW</a> (like <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/PoS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoS</a>) requires money to participate (as in neither hardware nor electricity nor bandwith being free). But I'm shure we can agree that getting that is way cheaper than the budget that can buy a house (or sometimes two) in rural Germany.</li></ul><a href="https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/114638656071829798" translate="no" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/114638656071829798</a>

Damian YerrickWeb scrapers run by LLM companies have become so aggressive that some website operators feel a need to use Anubis, a proof-of-work barrier using script in the browser. I'm told it's less bad than blocking entire countries or making your readers find all the traffic lights. <a href="https://anubis.techaro.lol/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://anubis.techaro.lol/</a><a href="https://peoplemaking.games/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ai</a> <a href="https://peoplemaking.games/tags/anubis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#anubis</a> <a href="https://peoplemaking.games/tags/bot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bot</a> <a href="https://peoplemaking.games/tags/antibot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#antibot</a> <a href="https://peoplemaking.games/tags/captcha" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#captcha</a> <a href="https://peoplemaking.games/tags/proofofwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#proofofwork</a>

Kevin Karhan :verified:<a href="https://norden.social/@duco" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@duco</a> <a href="https://piratenpartei.social/profile/alexis_roussel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@alexis_roussel</a> what makes <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Bitcoin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bitcoin</a> the real <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/shitcoin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#shitcoin</a> (along with basically everything that isn't <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Monero" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Monero</a>) is that it's not only <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/PoW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoW</a> (<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ProofOfWork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ProofOfWork</a>) but also basically <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ASIC</a>-based, so that means literal metric tons of <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/eWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#eWaste</a> get created every year producing those.<ul><li>And since ASICs ain't like <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/CPU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CPU</a>|s, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/GPU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GPU</a>|s & <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FPGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FPGA</a>|s, one can't even <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/reuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#reuse</a> & <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/upcycle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#upcycle</a> them for different workloads (like <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Rendering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Rendering</a> and general-purpose <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Compute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Compute</a>) as they are absolutely inflexible in their use-case.</li></ul>

🧿🪬🍄🌈🎮💻🚲🥓🎃💀🏴🛻🇺🇸>“<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Bitcoin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bitcoin</a> is an honest <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/currency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#currency</a>. It’s a currency that’s based on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/proofOfWork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#proofOfWork</a>. Everything’s on the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ledger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ledger</a>, it’s <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/decentralized" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#decentralized</a>, and that’s what we need to do with <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#democracy</a>.”<a href="https://decrypt.co/241670/rfk-government-buy-615-billion-in-bitcoin" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://decrypt.co/241670/rfk-government-buy-615-billion-in-bitcoin</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cryptocurrency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cryptocurrency</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bitcoin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bitcoin</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/rfkjr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rfkjr</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/btc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#btc</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/crypto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#crypto</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/web3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#web3</a>

katzenberger 🇺🇦<a href="https://hachyderm.io/@BenjaminHCCarr" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@BenjaminHCCarr</a> This is what "<a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/ProofOfWork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ProofOfWork</a>" looks like, in reality. You are competing against many others to prove that you can burn our planet faster than anybody else.

🧿🪬🍄🌈🎮💻🚲🥓🎃💀🏴🛻🇺🇸I feel like everyone who tries to explain how <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BitcoinMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BitcoinMining</a> works gets it wrong; they make it sound like miners are doing all that hashing to "secure the network" or that somehow all the work is required to update the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blockchain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#blockchain</a>.The truth is, adding a block of transactions is simple, it's just appending to a list. All that "work" in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/proofofwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#proofofwork</a> is just a game of draw-straws; a way of randomly picking who gets to add the next block of transactions so no one can cheat.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bitcoin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bitcoin</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/crypto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#crypto</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/btc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#btc</a>

Aral Balkan<a href="https://dt.gl/@Decentralize" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Decentralize</a> Shame about the planet, though, huh?<a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/proofOfWork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#proofOfWork</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/proofOfWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#proofOfWaste</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/bitcoin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bitcoin</a>

Cory Doctorow<a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/5yrsago" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#5yrsago</a> A hard look at the wastefulness of “<a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/ProofOfWork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ProofOfWork</a>,” the core of the blockchain <a href="https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2018/05/22/bitcoins-stupendous-power-waste-is-green-apparently-bad-excuses-for-proof-of-work/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2018/05/22/bitcoins-stupendous-power-waste-is-green-apparently-bad-excuses-for-proof-of-work/</a><a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/5yrsago" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#5yrsago</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/@cstross" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@cstross</a> on the “soft genocide” of eugenics-tainted, alt-right climate dystopia <a href="https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/05/happy-21st-century.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/05/happy-21st-century.html</a><a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/5yrsago" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#5yrsago</a> The <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/ComputerHistoryMuseum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ComputerHistoryMuseum</a> just published the sourcecode for <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/Eudora" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Eudora</a> <a href="https://computerhistory.org/blog/the-eudora-email-client-source-code/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://computerhistory.org/blog/the-eudora-email-client-source-code/</a><a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/5yrsago" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#5yrsago</a> The company that made <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/GrenfellTower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GrenfellTower</a>’s flammable, poisonous insulation used dangerous lies to make hundreds of sales <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/grenfell-tower-fire-latest-inquiry-london-cladding-building-safety-uk-celotex-a8362186.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/grenfell-tower-fire-latest-inquiry-london-cladding-building-safety-uk-celotex-a8362186.html</a>11/

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