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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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[–] musicalphysics@discuss.online 0 points 1 month ago

No, it hasn’t failed its original purpose. Bitcoin is the first currency of the modern era that the state hasn’t been able to destroy. That is an amazing achievement.