• neidu3@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    At least they’re somewhat useful, as opposed to that harddrive-destroying block chain stuff a couple of years back. Chiacoin, or something?

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      2 months ago

      I mean. Useful how? At least you can but drugs with crypto. Can’t buy drugs with AI.

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        2 months ago

        A fancy autocomplete is miles more useful than a shitcoin that you can’t even use for buying drugs. The only thing it did was double the price of harddrives and cause a mountain of ewaste.

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          Right, it can generate child porn, tell kids to kill themselves, and tell you to put gasoline in your pasta sauce while while also quadrupling or more the price of hardware! Much better!

          I’m not even sure where you’re getting the idea that you can’t buy drugs with crypto, though, because you absolutely can???

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            2 months ago

            I specifically referred to Chiacoin, as the topic was harddrives, not blockchain as a whole.

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              2 months ago

              Ahh, I somehow missed that, my bad. I’d never even heard of that one holy shit

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                2 months ago

                They claimed that it was a more eco friendly coin, as it didn’t use GPU (and thereby not much electricity) but instead it caused harddrive prices to jump, due to excessive wear on drives. May for saving electricity, and instead causing a fuckton of e-waste, I guess.

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      2 months ago

      Crypto never really used hard drives that much besides a little to store wallets