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I will never find the irony in this anything other than pathetic.
The one legitimate grievance against Bitcoin and other POW cryptocurrencies - the wasteful burning of energy to do throw-away calculations simply to prove the work has been done... the environmental cost of distributed scale meaningless CPU cycle waste purely for the purpose of wasting CPU cycles, has been so eagerly grasped by people who are largely doing it to foil another energy wasteful infotech invention.
It really is astonishing.
either you have the service with anubis or you have no service at all
unlike pyramid coins, anubis serves a purpose
It still uses Proof-of-Work, in which the coal being burned is only to prove that you burned the coal.
who gives a shit
Not many, but I sure wish all.