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From "Why Texas Republicans are Souring on Crypto" from The Economist https://archive.ph/eIXGc

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[–] Frank@hexbear.net 59 points 3 months ago

Who could have forseen this entirely unpredictable and unexpected outcome?

Admittedly, extorting the state is a new and exciting height of crypto grift, but back when Texas put this in motion pretty much everyone knew bringing massive sudoku solving operations in to the only state with it's own grid was a bad idea.