matt on Nostr: It makes mining progress-full, rather than progress-free. Ie the one company with the ...
It makes mining progress-full, rather than progress-free. Ie the one company with the fastest QC wins all the blocks, rather than proportional to how much faster they are. Also, people always quote the “square root of 256 bit hash” nonsense, but it’s actually square root of the difficulty (in bits).
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