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Isn’t Bitcoin doing just that? Of course the hardware is pretty specialized. Unfortunately ”cheap” is not the same as ”ecological”.

• tshaddox 5y ago
  True, but the same goes for “planet-leaving tech.” Some of us might not be able to afford leaving the planet, or might want the planet’s environment to remain somewhat hospitable to life even after the CEOs leave in their spaceships!
  • acqq 5y ago
    Of course, "billionaires won’t "escape" to space while the world burns" -- "when you understand the science, it becomes clear that the "billionaire space race" is just that—nothing more than a pissing contest between egotistical robber barons." https://www.salon.com/2021/07/07/no-billionaires-wont-escape-to-space-while-the-world-burns/ https://www.salon.com/2021/07/07/no-billionaires-wont-escape...
    • gojomo 5y ago
      I'd not trust Salon to know what billionaires, or science/technology, will be able to do. Modern Salon is even more ideology-addled than the historic NYTimes, which editorialized human flight was a million years away in 1903, when it was… 2 months away. Still, billionaries are likely happy that creative-writers, like the author of the linked piece, keep Salon-readers smugly overconfident about what billionaires can't do.