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To: Elroy who wrote (978)	10/3/2018 11:05:18 PM
From: Graystone	Respond to of 7698

Useful blockchains or Total scams There are a lot of good blockchains doing a lot of cool things with public ledgers. Wager sounds like a good idea, blockchains work well in those type of trust transactions. Bitcoin is a POW cryptocurrency, not POS. As such miners are required to make the blockchain functional. In the last crypto run-up in the summer the cost of a BTC transaction went way up, it was stupid. The bitcoin blockchain continues to gather power even through the price slump. cryptoslate.com Despite Bitcoin’s 2018 price slump, the dominant cryptocurrency’s hash rate continues to surge at an astonishing pace. Although the value of Bitcoin has decreased by 53% since January 1st, 2018, the hash rate has increased 155% in the same time period.