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Someone just burned $8 million of bitcoin (protos.com)

submitted 2 months ago by lemmydev2@infosec.pub to c/pulse_of_truth@infosec.pub

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More than 107 BTC are now provably burned from the supply until someone invents a cryptographically relevant quantum computer. The post Someone just burned $8 million of bitcoin appeared first on Protos.

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[–] Gladaed@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago

Holding it is gambling. So is holding a current gen IPhone. Putting it in a shredder instead of selling it and doing something productive is wasteful and harmful and may even increase value of other similar things.