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Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain

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arrested for stealing electricity to mine bitcoins, which the author describes as a “government crackdown” on “freedom” because “bitcoin mining is arguably the best possible use of electricity in Venezuela”. — location: 559 ^ref-35974

If only the prosecutors had had to hand some sort of cryptographically robust ledger of all transactions, widely distributed, with thousands of verifiable copies available. — location: 976 ^ref-10188

Bitcoin decentralises things that should not be decentralised, then centralises them anyway but wastefully. — location: 1066 ^ref-63194

Cryptography and Cryptography Policy mailing list, 10 January 2009. [41] — location: 3205 ^ref-37006