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yojoots / gist:7f4af4ee8fb9be1b34038f0409f5ca29
Created February 6, 2020 23:00
A thorough and conclusive destruction of a "Nope"-bot
Tweet #1: https://twitter.com/yojoots/status/1225313674631503872
"The obvious counter is a PoW algorithm swapout. All who have a stake in BTC have commensurate incentive to follow the functional side of the fork."
The point: if a party has any stake in BTC, they have commensurate incentive to follow along on the branch of any given fork that continues to function.
Tweet #2: https://twitter.com/evoskuil/status/1225352981811347458
"Nope." (link to https://github.com/libbitcoin/libbitcoin-system/wiki/Proof-of-Work-Fallacy)
From the included link: "There is a theory that mining services are subservient... According to this theory miners then suffer a catastrophic loss due to the unrecoverable capital investment in highly-specialized hardware."
Note: this link, and the reasoning it contains, is not relevant to the point raised in Tweet #1. In fact, Tweet #1 does *not* argue in any way that users can "foist a capital loss" on miners. The link is entirely irrelevant to Tweet #1 and the point that it makes. In othe
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yojoots / animated-gradient-line-icons-css-only.markdown
Created October 12, 2020 03:49
Animated Gradient Line Icons (CSS only)