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Even just the concept of the blockchain itself is based on a massively inefficient use of resources to have a public ledger that can't be tampered with. This wouldn't be an issue at all if people just didn't have incentives to tamper with it!

>This wouldn't be an issue at all if people just didn't have incentives to tamper with it!

:O, the only possibility for that which comes to my mind is a world in which everybody is infinetly rich?

Even that would only address financial incentives (and just the rational ones, at that). There are - unfortunately - others.

Compared to any point in the human past, this is already largely the case in many countries. The problem is that it has been uneven.

Lets see proof of work be used for 9+ years and millions of people.

I worry about russian hackers(spamming) stakes or pulling off attacks.

It took me long enough to believe that BTC wasnt going to break.

While you are at it, you can also read up about "triple ledger accounting"

I looked this up, what is your point(if you dont mind)?

It seems like a feature with ~0 benefits. Can you explain?

I think you should look it up again.