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on June 18, 2019
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Facebook reveals its cryptocurrency Libra
Note that Libra doesn't use energy-sucking PoW.
lightedman
on June 19, 2019
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If it works in any way like a permissionless distributed database, you will find it running into energy problems very quickly with every node addition. this is a known issue since the 70s when we first tried this kind of technology.
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