The solution in the past was usually wars. Let's hope that doesn't happen this time round.
The solution in the past was usually wars. Let's hope that doesn't happen this time round.
Not so good. The product of voltage and current is power: P = V * I and the unit is Watt (W not Wh).
Slavery is the ownership of a person as property. Please respect the meanings of words. What you try is re-framing. Do you really think that is clever?
War as solution? Solution for what and whom? What are you referring to?
You're right insofar that this is partially why I said it's doomed. But that's not the interesting part (Still I just recently stumbled over an advertisment to join my GPU into some cloud-computing on mining.)
I was referring to banks, companies, and politicians discussing to invest into that future technology.
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I once had a Bitcoin "purse"(?) installed over 25 years ago, just to take a peek at it, when it was brandnew. If I put 50,- in that time, maybe I was now having a Porsche, but in those days 50,- were way too much for me to risk it on something as certain as the lottery. Also neither my CPU/GPU, nor my internet connection was powerful enough to earn enough money by mining to pay the light and internet bill for what the stunt had cost me.
So: "Deinstall" - "Really?" - "Yes!" and that was my complete Bitcoin adventure.
And I like to keep it that way.
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You're right insofar that this is partially why I said it's doomed. But that's not the interesting part (Still I just recently stumbled over an advertisment to join my GPU into some cloud-computing on mining.)
I was referring to banks, companies, and politicians discussing to invest into that future technology.
Edit:
I once had a Bitcoin "purse"(?) installed over 25 years ago, just to take a peek at it, when it was brandnew. If I put 50,- in that time, maybe I was now having a Porsche
So: "Deinstall" - "Really?" - "Yes!" and that was my complete Bitcoin adventure.
And I like to keep it that way.
Not problem with this. The solution to this is to use rollups, a type of self-encrypting cryptography that can reduce a thousand transactions (an example number) into a single final transaction. Almost all Layer 2s are currently capable of doing this.
That's not low IQ; what are users doing installing shiny spyware willingly?
That's not low IQ; what are users doing installing shiny spyware willingly?
I take some aim at a certain browser and their Crytpo thing.
Yes. *facepalm* You are absolutely right.
I can't remember anymore if it actually was Bitcoin. Yes, I simplified that like many others when they say 'Bitcoin' when they actually mean cryptocurrency, which also is not absolute correct, since it's primarily a blockchain, doesn't need necessarily be encrypted.
Yes. That I remember. But I didn't want to start a side discussion 'cryptomining is done with GPUs!' 'Not in the old days!' ...., so I wanted to be safe and simply wrote CPU/GPU
That's why I keep my fingers out of that. Even I don't know shit about this topic - as just being proved
- to me it seems more some kind of a casino. I dare say like kind of a (still legal) snowball system you can speculate with and bet on, plus a good place to park, move, and laundry black money. All I (seem to) know (read about it) is because of it's blockchain technology's rising amount of data, therefore rising needed computing power, and rising energy consumption, it's not capable to become an actual replacement for real money. 6502 elaborated this even more. But many others here also know. - but bypass some mass media, especially business stuff, also what some politicians dream of, there are actually ideas to make it the real thing.I don't find johnjohn remark too far off base. Consider that as one-sided as work law has become in the USA over the past 30 years, and the control employers have over the lives of their employees, I think the term slavery has some merit. and when you couple that with the illusion of free-choice when it comes to thing like choosing employers or what products to buy...Freedom itself is an illusion. The only true freedeom left is what goes on inside your own head, and even that is constantly under attack by those who want to label folks with odd ideas as being mentally distrurbed.
That's why I keep my fingers out of that. Even I don't know shit about this topic - as just being proved
Personally I believe this Bitcoin - in this case I actually mean Bitcoin, because it seems to be the biggest but anyway the most popular 'cryptocurrency' - is just a giant bubble to burst sooner or later.
But since when you read non-technical - non-FreeBSD related websites
That's why I post it here into this thread of 'What will by hyped next beyond reasons to BS?'
While I'm not sure this will be the next big fad, we are already seeing the beginnings of this right now. This has in fact been brewing for years, with the likes of non features such as secureboot, pushed as "bootloader security", which was in fact a cynical attempt to deter the installation of the "approved" or "certified" OS. Supposed security concerns are often utilised by Big Tech to sow fear and guide the user down a certain path - i.e. using the approved OS, the "recommended" settings (enabling the telemetry and surveillance software), handing over personal data, etc. Nowadays there is TPM 2.0, the "Trusted Platform Module" -i.e. the chip designed and engineered by a consortium which includes Intel, AMD, Microsift, etc and supports their business interests.
Thanks, I am not surprized.I see lots of people who see life without a smartphone as utterly impossible; and being told that 60 years ago we did not have a washing machine, they consider that fake-news.
Lets make that clear: when I joined into building the Internet, back in 1988, I believed that we would make the world a better place for all. Specifically, I believed that marxism would be resolved once and for all - because the internet has no technically inherent discrimination between, say, a broadcast station and a receiver. I could not imagine that people would go to lengths in order to just rebuild that very discrimination by means of facebook, google, apple etc.
That's the spirit of a testing engineer, a real developer who's interested in and knows how to design solid, robust, reliable, trustworthy, high quality products.
