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I like the basic fundamental idea, but the implementation is dreadful.
I'm all for coming up with some kind of method for validating decentralized information but the system that cryptocurrencies use is highly inefficient.
The validation is cheap, every node does that constantly. Do you mean proof-of-work mining?