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[-] [email protected] 77 points 3 days ago

Exactly. It's called proof-of-work and was originally invented to reduce spam emails but was later used by Bitcoin to control its growth speed

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

it wasn't made for bitcoin originally? didn't know that!

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

you know it's old when it doesn't have ssl

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