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A Dyson sphere around a black hole

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214 points SkyMarshal | 4 comments | 19 Aug 21 03:40 UTC | HN request time: 0.485s | source
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sydthrowaway ◴[19 Aug 21 05:47 UTC] No.28230748[source]▶
Why do we think Dyson spheres exist. It's completely conjecture.
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ufhghfggf ◴[19 Aug 21 05:59 UTC] No.28230827[source]▶
Because we think intelligent alien life has nothing better to do than destroy the natural beauty of star systems in order to power their crypto-coin mining rigs and video game cards. ;-)
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1. jancsika ◴[19 Aug 21 06:08 UTC] No.28230877[source]▶
Intelligent alien fiat systems require roughly similar size dyson spheres.

Edit to resolve Poe's law ambiguity: this is a parody. Obviously aliens would have lightning network which would require a smaller overall dyson sphere

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2. ufhghfggf ◴[19 Aug 21 06:19 UTC] No.28230926[source]▶
Edited to add a winky face after reading up on Poe's law [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law ].
3. quickthrower2 ◴[19 Aug 21 06:44 UTC] No.28231081[source]▶
You’d need a decentralised money system that can handle eventual consistency. Not because someone is too lazy to use SQL but because of the amount of time it takes to send information around. Maybe the energy itself IS the currency.
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4. jancsika ◴[19 Aug 21 16:08 UTC] No.28235611[source]▶
> Maybe the energy itself IS the currency.

So you think an alien civilization advanced enough to build a dyson sphere would not know how to leverage it for the fundamental goal of implementing blockchain?

I guess it's true what they say: there's a sucker born every minute.