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[–] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 78 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

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

[–] RandomTester@lemmybefree.net 4 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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

[–] 0xebfe@lemmy.today 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] RandomTester@lemmybefree.net 12 points 2 weeks ago

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

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