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I love the moniker that crypto is just an ever growing bug bounty :)

Maybe it will work when GAI is writing perfect code…

ie Bitcoin is 100 years too early, we don’t have perfect code or computers efficient enough to do proof of work without destroying the environment, we aren’t on 100% renewables, etc

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> we don’t have perfect code or computers efficient enough to do proof of work

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the point of proof of work precisely that it takes resources to perform this work? I.e. it's not a bug, it's a feature.

It's a feature from the viewpoint of ensuring that the chain works at intended. It's a bug from the viewpoint of climate change. Or perhaps a better way of putting it: the fact that proof of work burns a lot of electricity is not a feature, the protocol does not directly rely on electricity being used; that part is a misfeature, aka bug.

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