He just plugs his pollution machine in and gets money for it. It doesn't make anything, it just. Pollutes. And makes money. Like a fucking Captain Planet villain

  • RootVegetable [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    "Look, we set up a computer farm that performs an unimaginable number of complex calculations every minute. The only downsides are the massive spike in the price of GPUs and the outrageous energy consumption."

    "Hmmm, those downsides are a little worrying but I'm sure they're for a good cause. What are the calculations for?"

    "They make number go up."

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

    What I really appreciate about bitcoin was that it was marketed as leveling the playing field of finance, to like put money back in the hands of people. What happened? The same hedge funds that run the world now run bitcoin. Oh well!

    • 6bicycles [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      You get to look at all the libertarians re-invent banking regulations

      It'd be neat in a "seeing a chimpanzee domesticate wolf" type thing if it didn't kill the planet

  • ImSoOCD [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    I played Final Fantasy VII when I was 8 and I’m here to say that even mako reactors had the byproduct of harvesting energy

    • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]
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      3 years ago

      If I’m hearing you right, you’re saying we should do the same thing to cryptobros that sephiroth did to shinra

      • ImSoOCD [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        I’m saying the only crypto I’m investing in is AvalancheCoin

  • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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    3 years ago

    didn't this get posted before? I could swear I saw it back in February

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

    There's really only one good thing to do if you find a bitcoin farm. The Soviet Union's old minister of foreign affairs has this cocktail named after him, see...