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Don't worry, long before then we'll pass the Crypo Event Horizon, when it becomes uneconomical to compute anything but crypto, and civilization will gratefully
by hyperpallium2 5y ago
Don't worry, long before then we'll pass the Crypo Event Horizon, when it becomes uneconomical to compute anything but crypto, and civilization will gratefully collapse. Our descendents will curse the blockchain and evolve other means for exchange of value.
- rzzzt 5y agoPrecious metals are reasonably compact, easy to store and have inherent value due to their relative rarity.
- kijin 5y agoBring back the gold standard, and enjoy your popcorn as the entire solar system rushes to build supermassive particle accelerators that bombard base metals with all sorts of stuff until they turn into gold. It really is the same principle as brute-forcing meaningless hashes until you get a predetermined prefix. Only in this case the desired prefix has 79 protons.
- m4rtink 5y agoBlack hole accretion disks are more efficient for that: https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/464790d2497de https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/464790d2497de
- rbanffy 5y agoThings only have value for their utility. Anything else is a consensual hallucination.
- Nextgrid 5y agoRight now a non-trivial chunk of compute power, storage and engineering effort is spent on advertising and marketing. I'd rather take crypto, at least it's easier to ignore.
- formerly_proven 5y agoMarketing doesn't inflate hardware prices by 500 %.
- cwkoss 5y agoThat's debatable, and really depends on what hardware you count.
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