What the hell is (a) bitcoin?

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This is so weird:
Long Blockchain Corp., the Farmingdale company formerly named Long Island Iced Tea Corp., Tuesday announced it has filled two vacancies on its board of directors with a Wall Street veteran and a “technology entrepreneur with experience in blockchain technology.”

The company’s shares climbed 21 percent Tuesday to close at $6.17. The stock has risen about 47 percent over the past 12 months, making a major jump after Long Island Iced Tea’s Dec. 21 announcement it was changing the focus of its business to blockchain technology though it plans to continue selling ready-to-drink iced tea.
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Humans are getting dumber. When we should be figuring ways to use less energy these geniuses are using more more more to solve a puzzle.

Would not an evolving society be looking for an exchange medium that didn’t pillage the planet?

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lukethedrifter wrote:Humans are getting dumber. When we should be figuring ways to use less energy these geniuses are using more more more to solve a puzzle.

Would not an evolving society be looking for an exchange medium that didn’t pillage the planet?
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At this point, it sounds like bitcoin is really going to have to start providing value in the form of usefulness to bitcoin holders or else it will become obsolete. The cost to mine it has become more than the monetary value it holds and the monetary value continues to fall meaning it costs more to get it than it can be sold for.

So, why would anyone mine it? And, outside of speculation, why would anyone buy it. I guess there are places it can be spent, but afaik, there are few places where it is an exclusive currency. And, while I'm not well versed in bitcoin and it's uses, it doesn't seem that any major headway has been made finding places that accept or prefer it as a currency. Without that, it seems destined for failure. The price has dropped, what, 65% or so from it's peak last year.

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energy consumption to mine bitcoin is more than 39th ranked nation in energy consumption.

Uses more than Austria, Chile, Or Czech Republic

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Freed Roger wrote:energy consumption to mine bitcoin is more than 39th ranked nation in energy consumption.

Uses more than Austria, Chile, Or Czech Republic
lukethedrifter wrote:Humans are getting dumber. When we should be figuring ways to use less energy these geniuses are using more more more to solve a puzzle.

Would not an evolving society be looking for an exchange medium that didn’t pillage the planet?

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lukethedrifter wrote:
Freed Roger wrote:energy consumption to mine bitcoin is more than 39th ranked nation in energy consumption.

Uses more than Austria, Chile, Or Czech Republic
lukethedrifter wrote:Humans are getting dumber. When we should be figuring ways to use less energy these geniuses are using more more more to solve a puzzle.

Would not an evolving society be looking for an exchange medium that didn’t pillage the planet?
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