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minus-squareHACKthePRISONSlinkfedilink-8•11 months agothat market cap is a dumb metric to use to dictate protocol specifications
minus-squareEager EaglelinkfedilinkEnglish6•edit-211 months agowtf are you even talking about? What protocol specs? Who’s dictating what?
minus-squareHACKthePRISONSlinkfedilink-6•11 months agothe specifications of the bitcoin protocol require proof of work. using the market cap to dictate what the protocol specification should be is absurd.
minus-squareEager EaglelinkfedilinkEnglish7•11 months agoand who’s proposing that? I picked the top in market cap to illustrate what most relevant coins are doing because most of them are irrelevant shitcoins.
minus-squareHACKthePRISONSlinkfedilink-9•11 months agoseems like you undrestand that market cap is irrelevant to the protocol design.
minus-square@Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish1•11 months agoWant to suggest a better one?
what’s your point?
that market cap is a dumb metric to use to dictate protocol specifications
wtf are you even talking about? What protocol specs? Who’s dictating what?
the specifications of the bitcoin protocol require proof of work. using the market cap to dictate what the protocol specification should be is absurd.
and who’s proposing that? I picked the top in market cap to illustrate what most relevant coins are doing because most of them are irrelevant shitcoins.
seems like you undrestand that market cap is irrelevant to the protocol design.
Want to suggest a better one?
uh… adoption, stability, code commits, forks…