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a lot of cryptos are likely going to crash within the foreseeable future but the mining craze gonna destroy the planet even quicker.

get rich while you can then maybe you can afford the trip to mars when it hits the fan.
 
a lot of cryptos are likely going to crash within the foreseeable future but the mining craze gonna destroy the planet even quicker.

get rich while you can then maybe you can afford the trip to mars when it hits the fan.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/12/bitcoins-insane-energy-consumption-explained/

The skyrocketing value of Bitcoin is leading to soaring energy consumption. According to one widely cited website that tracks the subject, the Bitcoin network is consuming power at an annual rate of 32TWh—about as much as Denmark. By the site's calculations, each Bitcoin transaction consumes 250kWh, enough to power homes for nine days.
 
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I asked the same guy who said "I'm rich bitch" whether he remembered the S&L crisis of the '80s, because he's old as fuck, but he didn't see the applicability. When all these speculators try to cash out to fiat, none of these clearinghouses are going to have enough to cover it.
 
I just hope that my less financial-savvy friends get out of it in time to save their shirts.

I have a couple hundred just for shits in various other cryptocurrencies but I'm not really touching btc because it's not nearly as fun as the small ones. iota just announced a partnership with microsoft that more than doubled their exchange price in 48 hours. capitalized on that pretty well. it's a lot of fun to gamble on, but only with rainy day cash that you're okay with losing in entirety.
 
I have a couple hundred just for shits in various other cryptocurrencies but I'm not really touching btc because it's not nearly as fun as the small ones. iota just announced a partnership with microsoft that more than doubled their exchange price in 48 hours. capitalized on that pretty well. it's a lot of fun to gamble on, but only with rainy day cash that you're okay with losing in entirety.
yeah, I don't touch the stuff, but I also have an active trader managing my retirement, and don't consider the empty toner cartridge exchange at Staples an asset class like @fly, so I'm just a no good double-dumb moron who nobody should listen to, ever.
 
Can you elaborate? I don't know anything about ethereum
They're working on an update called Casper that will switch to Proof of Stake which doesn't require a ton of complex (and useless) calculations. Apparently, the technical requirements to securely move from PoW are immense. Some folks I trust are suggesting it might not even be possible. But the dude running ETH is like a 20 somethings genius, so we'll see...

https://blockonomi.com/ethereum-casper/
 
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They're working on an update called Casper that will switch to Proof of Stake which doesn't require a ton of complex (and useless) calculations. Apparently, the technical requirements to securely move from PoW are immense. Some folks I trust are suggesting it might not even be possible. But the dude running ETH is like a 20 somethings genius, so we'll see...

https://blockonomi.com/ethereum-casper/
Neat!
 
yeah, I don't touch the stuff, but I also have an active trader managing my retirement, and don't consider the empty toner cartridge exchange at Staples an asset class like @fly, so I'm just a no good double-dumb moron who nobody should listen to, ever.

it's definitely different in that case, i mean i'm 19 and having a hell of a time playing with spare cash (i do active trading as well but again with small amounts. passive investment is the wave while i'm still busy with school) but it's definitely no retirement plan.

that said, everyone in my social circle is proficient with programming, so we're also having a good time looking at dapp opportunities off the ether blockchain. there's a lot of fun nerding to be done here.
 
@fly have you ever seen anything about using an SSD as a cache drive for a drive pool setup?

unraid does that. It was more annoying than useful when i was messing with it. It basically copied commonly used (or recently downloaded) files to the SSD, then on a set schedule, moved them to the array. It led to files not being where i expected them to be, and the schedule being too slow even on its fastest setting, so the cache drive filled up.

Really bad implementation.