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Comment by lern_too_spel

You don't get it. I understand how consensus works in Bitcoin. I argue that it doesn't provide any advantage over other systems in anything and has overwhelming downsides in all of its current applications. Notably, you have failed to mention any counterexample.

Also, the Byzantine Generals Problem was solved multiple times in the paper that introduced it.

You were somebody's greater fool. You believe that there will be more greater fools to come. Eventually, you will run out of fools.

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