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The Bizarre Rise of the 'Bitcoin Citadel' (decrypt.co)

submitted 1 year ago by gerikson@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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Nice backgrounder on a bit of BTC meme-ry. Mentions our resident no-coiner @dgerard@awful.systems

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[–] self@awful.systems 6 points 1 year ago

not to mention a 100% working and unified internet; bitcoin’s continued operation is incompatible with all of the likely failure states for the fault-tolerant internet (not that we’ve really got the fault-tolerant one in operation, with how centralized the modern internet is)