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The Amazon page clearly calls out the amount of bitcoin generated as "small" and "for development purposes". The 21 Bitcoin Computer is the first computer with
by Karunamon 11y ago
The Amazon page clearly calls out the amount of bitcoin generated as "small" and "for development purposes".
The 21 Bitcoin Computer is the first computer with native hardware and software support for the Bitcoin protocol. That means the hardware to mine a stream of small amounts of bitcoin for development purposes, and the software to make that bitcoin useful for buying and selling digital goods.
Developers use the 21 Bitcoin Computer to quickly add Bitcoin-based monetization to any app, service, or device. Please note: the satoshis you mine provide a source of readily-available bitcoin for application development, but are not intended to be used for investment purposes.
A legitimate use case. This isn't intended as a serious miner (they're calling out satoshis, which is the smallest divisible unit of a coin, a hundredth of a millionth, with a USD value of a 3 millionths of a penny) and isn't sold as one.
- tveita 11y agoThey could probably preload it with more bitcoins than this device is likely to mine in its lifetime for the same cost. It stumps me why they'd include the miner at all, but they may be trying to pivot from the miner as their main product. My impression from their press releases was that they were aiming more at crazy IoT things like embedding miners into household objects.