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I agree this is a very unfortunate grouping of topics. The irony is that there’s a lot of cryptocurrency stuff that isn’t even well decentralized, so it’s almost an objectively bad grouping.

"Pointlessly playing Numberwang all day" is the best, most accurate description of blockchain activity I've ever heard.

I was thinking the exact same thing. That comment deserves some kind of Hall of Fame status!

Thank you.

If my comment does get into a hall of fame, please edit out the repeated "indeed".

> I also think blockchains are almost always a waste of electricity by computers pointlessly playing Numberwang all day. (I'm not quite sure if "almost" is needed there.)

In relation to what? Do you have an alternative way of maintaining blockchains security?