• courageousstep@lemm.ee
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    20 hours ago

    I’m not religious, but God bless you.

    I still barely understand, but I understand more than I did five minutes ago, and that is worth something.

    Why is this math problem worth monetary value to anyone if it’s just a randomly generated number? I don’t care if something generated a number somewhere. Like, good for them I guess? Why is that valuable?

    • untakenusername@sh.itjust.works
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      10 hours ago

      Thank you! Well its really not that useful by itself, just like little green papers aren’t that useful. But its just more practical for the world to imagine that the paper is worth something its not, because this makes trade a lot easier to do. Same thing with Bitcoin