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mb guys

and there goes the us dollar...

are you advocating for suicide? because it really seems like you are

do you realize that if shiping became vastly more expensive then fertilizers will become more expensive and then so will food?? not to mention how much more expensive meds would get

the whole world relies on this, and its not just about consumerism

also no avocados if no shiping

and remember this is grok, an AI that was made to lean to the right

There still needs to be some way for the devs to pay the server costs and API costs. What I'm suggesting is a way for the user to sell their processing power to them instead of paying an irritating $2 every month. And while the price of cryptocurrencies vary, they don't vary fast enough to make mining profits (if you sell the coins as you produce them) unpredictable

As long as we’re still burning fossil fuels to create electricity anywhere on earth, wasting any kind of energy is bad.

So your saying that if I use solar power to power a lightbulb that then I forget to turn off, that's bad?

It doesn’t add any value to anything. It’s expensive (in terms of energy cost) and absolutely, 100% useless.

Uh actually it is not useless, no idea where you got that, there's tons of things you can buy with it. Other than drugs (which alone provide a use case, but il continue anyway), you can pay for protonmail, buy computer and other stuff. and theres a few lists (https://monerica/ .com/ is one) with a bunch of more stuff you can do with it. (I'm not endorsing anything here, just saying it exists)

crypto just facilitates more trade over the internet, thats how its useful

First and foremost. Most people’s devices are not powerful enough to make any money mining any cryptocurrency.

That depends on the currency. Miners working on something like bitcoin have to compete with massive corporations who construct special ASIC chips that have vastly higher hash rates, making it impossible for anyone who isn't using such a chip to create any profit. Some currencies, like Monero (XMR) use special hash functions designed is such a way that custom mining hardware for them cant be constructed, and so mining can only happen on cpus. Because of this, its actually possible to make money mining Monero. There's a benchmark for the hash rates of various cpus, and here's a link to convert that to projected profits. My PC can calculate 3500 hashes per second, and this translates into USD 0.0045 per hour. That might not seem like much, but if you add together all the money that would be produced by all the players in this game, it would become substantial.

Also a cryptominer is not “free real state” it chugs the computer. The user would have a terrible experience trying to do anything with a cryptominer on the background.

That all depends on how many threads the miner is running. I honestly wouldn't be able tell if I'm running 2 threads of a Monero miner on my PC unless I look at my task manager - its really not that intensive at that level. Now of course, if it was using the full power of my cpu, I would be a lot hard to do any other task on it, but it doesn't need to run at full power like that.

And finally, there are many free software out there. Not everything is to be monetized. Some things should just be free. I have done plenty of free things for others to enjoy, it’s not the end of the world, quite the opposite is quite rewarding.

I agree and this game costs something to run, all the server costs and the API costs, and there needs to be some way of paying for that. I suppose it could become free if it was sustained with donations, and in that case having the option to run a miner like this on the client could be a way to add to that, giving the user the option to donate their computing power if they wanted to.

I mean less Stalin lovers. ofc I don't want tons of Nazis or something here, but Id like enough sanity here to dilute all the tankies. like Il say one thing about liking private property or how NK is bad and all of a sudden il get a bunch of replies from people telling me to read more marxist theory propaganda

why would the software need to know where its electricity is coming from?

I've reread this several times and I still have no idea what you're trying to say.

You know how many ships are needed to transport the thousands of components in the vast supply chain of computer chips? its a lot

If shiping slows down, computer chips become more expensive. And the whole world relies on them for everything. That includes you.

i really doubt sail powered ships are as fast as oil powered ones

what I'm imagining is that the attackers could make their wallet address public, and tell the company that they would fix everything or whatever if a sum of money magically appeared in their account. If the owner of the company privately held some crypto, they could pay them off the books and go around the law you were proposing.

mb guys

while that would probably fix this problem, it would only work if it could be enforced. which it couldn't be, because crypto exists

I wish more normal politcal beliefs were shared around here but yeah, that's the majority here for now

a benefit of ai is that its faster than a human. on the other hand, its can be wrong

planes need oil, as do ships.