The destructive green fantasy of the Bitcoin fanatics

https://www.ft.com/content/0448b44d-1d78-48f8-8ca8-6edae7976a5f

by phpnode • 5 years ago

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mikestew2• 5 years ago

The referenced white paper reminds me a lot of similar writings on things such as Intelligent Design (just to pick an example): refuting involves stopping after nearly every sentence, or paragraph at a minimum. "Whoa, stop. Let's go back over those assumptions." Every...other...sentence. It's just a bunch of smart-sounding words strung together to look coherent until you actually read what was written.

IOW, I'm just parroting what TFA said. But the referenced paper is worth a skim, if only to keep one's BS meter calibrated.

jbotz• 5 years ago

Maybe you could provide a link to the referenced paper... I'd rather not register on FT.com just to read this article.

phpnode• 5 years ago

There was discussion about it here yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26892135

Someone• 5 years ago

https://assets.ctfassets.net/2d5q1td6cyxq/5mRjc9X5LTXFFihIlT...

mikestew2• 5 years ago

https://assets.ctfassets.net/2d5q1td6cyxq/5mRjc9X5LTXFFihIlT...

The destructive green fantasy of the Bitcoin fanatics

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