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Not just the most hard drive space, but the very specific fast kinds of hard drives you need to farm it efficiently. The idea that you can do a sustainable cry
by idlewords 6y ago
Not just the most hard drive space, but the very specific fast kinds of hard drives you need to farm it efficiently.
The idea that you can do a sustainable cryptocurrency that remains sustainable no matter how valuable the tokens become in real money terms is self-evidently ridiculous. There's always some limiting resource you'll hit first, and if the cryptotokens are worth real money, that resource will get scarce.
But Chia is a good example of a brilliant person being so seduced by a challenging technical problem that they lose any ability to see foundational problems that people with a tenth of the brampower would be able to spot instantly.