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		kd0amg on July 6, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bitcoin Miner does the math, calls it quits The rate of padlock production doesn't stay approximately the same when people double the amount of resources they put towards producing padlocks.

ent on July 7, 2011 [–]

But the security of the bitcoin network also increases as the amount of computer resources put into mining increases.

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