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Some of them artificially inflate the cost of hard drives instead of GPUs, totally not the same!
by CrazyStat 5y ago
Some of them artificially inflate the cost of hard drives instead of GPUs, totally not the same!
- yokoprime 5y agoAre storage prices inflated at the moment? How is a physical commodity comparable to a ledger with hashes, ultimately assigned a value purely out of demand, despite being devoid of any actual purpose or usefulness?
- CrazyStat 5y agoStorage prices jumped sharply a few months back due to Chia. They've mostly come back down since then. I have no idea what the point of your second question is.
- criddell 5y agoWhat's artificial about it?
- CrazyStat 5y agoThe cryptocurrency is designed to demand storage for the sake of demanding storage (i.e. as proof of waste) rather than for any of the natural reasons for which people demand storage. Thus artificial.