https://twitter.com/BTCNatureFund/status/1387784998460219394

It's cool to see "we the working class resent being looked down on by you wealthy coastal liberal elites" used by rich libertarian dorks to defend their expensive computing clusters. Like bitcoin nerds don't even have the faux working class aesthetic, like at least buy a pickup truck and wear some overalls when you say this shit.

  • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    It's actually so funny to see TVs and light bulbs as the examples, they're the electronics you use to joke about how out of touch boomers are as they're among the ones with greatest efficiency gains.

      • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        edit: it just occurred to me that if you hacked a new smart tv you could in fact use it to mine crypto

        Eh, the GPUs on TVs are very specifically made for the task they do. Like the only reason they can do what they do is that they have specific hardware for h264 and HEVC decoding. It's actually funny if you ever get something encoded in a non-modern codec and see a smart tv completely fail at running a 480p tv show. I feel they'd be spectacularly bad at crypto mining.

      • FloridaBoi [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Yes, Formula One cars now get 6.1 mpg up from 5.9 mpg just last year.

        I actually like this metaphor for Bitcoin mining. It’s like a fucking car race where the point is just to get there first and the teams with the most money win.

        One could argue that race cars often used to prototype new tech so it has some value.

      • dpg [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        they usually undervolt and underclock their cards actually because you don't hurt the performance that much while using substantially less power - which is the name of the game.