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Imagine if we get to the point that critical medical or infrastructure devices cannot be produced because all the chips were taken up by Bitcoin miners wanting
by Thorentis 6y ago
Imagine if we get to the point that critical medical or infrastructure devices cannot be produced because all the chips were taken up by Bitcoin miners wanting to speculate on a fake currency bubble. Our own greed will be our destruction.
- charcircuit 6y agoWhat if all those chips were taken up by gamers, or ML researchers, or by cloud services. There will always be different people computing for resources.
- f6v 6y agoThe thing is that you could argue that games are art, ML researchers are advancing sciences, and cloud services enable businesses to create value. I’m not saying crypto is utterly useless, but many people certainly think so.
- 127 6y agoWhich critical medical infrastructure requires 5nm to function well?