Crypto miners are killing free CI
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CI providers like LayerCI, GitLab, TravisCI, and Shippable are all worsening or shutting down their free tiers due to cryptocurrency mining attacks.

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    • CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn [any]
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      3 years ago

      That second point changes if more commodities and services become available in Bitcoin, no? Death to crypto anyway

      • space_comrade [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        That won't happen.

        At best I can maaaaybe imagine people using it to directly buy more expensive things like cars and real estate, and that's a big maybe.

        Bonus hot take: I still think it's not any more stupid than gold. No gold having some small material use doesn't matter.

  • UmbraVivi [he/him, she/her]
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    3 years ago

    God how I've learned to despise cryptocurrency and everyone involved in this pathetic, wasteful joke

  • LibsEatPoop4 [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    the market capitalization of cryptocurrency surged from $190 billion in January of 2020 to $2 trillion in April of 2021

    Motherfucker.

  • Sphere [he/him, they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Every now and again I fantasize about creating malware and attaching it to some kind of libertarian obsession, and just robbing crypto techbros of all their coins.

    Maybe one of these days I'll actually do it...

  • culpritus [any]
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    3 years ago

    Is crypto the real AI singularity? We are going to doom our species so people can own virtual bits. Expending more and more resources on building and running networks of computers that feed our social illness is the Paper Clip Maximizer of the information age.

  • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    At WebDollar's April peak price of $.0005, the repository was making $77USD per month - a considerable sum in many countries, especially given that the only tools required are a laptop and an internet connection

    I mean, can you blame them?

    • ergot [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      Github/etc would be better off paying them off so they don't do it, like some sort of protection racket

  • Windows97 [any, any]
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    3 years ago

    crypto really does have to ruin everything it possibly can doesn't it

  • Rateatsbody [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    It sounds like they're enclosing the internet. That's fine, I didnt want free stuff anyways....

  • ergot [comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    I don't use CI that much and this is fucking me and my projects over. I have a cron that triggers once a day and it's generally 30-40 mins late a day now due to the high demand. One of my projects is getting garbage PRs made against it with a heavily forked action attached that is auto run. And it's all for generating pennies per process.

    • apollyon094 [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      The intent of cryptocurrency was to make an anonymous, trustable currency not to make internet dumbasses free money.