<div dir="auto"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Aug 26, 2020, 12:29 PM Christopher Browne via talk, <<a href="mailto:talk@gtalug.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">talk@gtalug.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><a href="https://thecorrespondent.com/655/blockchain-the-amazing-solution-for-almost-nothing/86714927310-8f431cae" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://thecorrespondent.com/655/blockchain-the-amazing-solution-for-almost-nothing/86714927310-8f431cae</a></div><div><br></div><div>I found it particularly hilarious when the writer of the article asked the maker of the childrens' aid app if he had noticed that the app didn't actually need blockchain at all.</div><div><br></div><div>"That's right."<br><br></div><div>But the punch line was even better...</div><div><br></div><div>Isn't it strange that you won all these awards despite not really using blockchain?<br></div><div><br></div><div>"We keep trying to tell people, but it doesn’t seem to stick. You’re calling me about it again now … ”</div></div></blockquote></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:15px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">I like articles description of what a blockchain is. </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:15px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:15px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">A "decentralised consensus algorithm."</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:15px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:15px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">However it is such a huge power sink that the "whale" speculators were locating in the US just south of the Quebec border in order to take advantage of the best rates in North America. </span><br></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:15px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><font face="georgia, serif"><span style="font-size:15px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">A Blockchain RFP  now a part of Hydro Quebecs stratigic plan </span></font></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><font face="georgia, serif"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:15px"><a href="https://www.mccarthy.ca/en/insights/blogs/canadian-energy-perspectives/canadian-power-key-developments-2019-trends-watch-2020-quebec-overview?utm_source=Mondaq&utm_medium=syndication&utm_campaign=LinkedIn-integration" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.mccarthy.ca/en/insights/blogs/canadian-energy-perspectives/canadian-power-key-developments-2019-trends-watch-2020-quebec-overview?utm_source=Mondaq&utm_medium=syndication&utm_campaign=LinkedIn-integration</a></span><br></span></font></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:15px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif"><a href="https://www.engadget.com/it-takes-an-estimated-seven-nuclear-plants-to-power-our-bitcoin-mining-212441059.html" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.engadget.com/it-takes-an-estimated-seven-nuclear-plants-to-power-our-bitcoin-mining-212441059.html</a></span><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:15px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">-- <br><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">When confronted by a difficult problem, solve it by reducing it to the<br>question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?"<br></div></div>
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</blockquote></div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Russell<br><br>“Th’ newspaper does ivrything f’r us. It runs th’ polis foorce an’ th’ banks, commands th’ milishy, controls th’ ligislachure, baptizes th’ young, marries th’ foolish, comforts th’ afflicted, afflicts th’ comfortable, buries th’ dead an’ roasts thim aftherward.” F. P. Dunne</div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Russell<br><br></div></div>