there is far far far less bitcoin than there is gold, and there always will be far far far less bitcoin than there is gold. Limited to 21million coins.

Bitcoin has built in appreciation - again - limited supply. It has built in appreciation because after some gain so much, others want to join the boat as well, bitcoins get lost and misplaced etc. The supply is dwindling, while demand is growing - built in.

Supply is dwindling because of the finite supply, lost bitcoins.
Demand is growing because more people learns about it, and wants low cost fast international transfers without arbitrary rules, regulations and the chance of someone stealing the money, with VISA, Goverment, Paypal etc. your money is *always* in danger.

Because you say that bitcoin is basicly a bubble tells that you are looking for one or two things:
- To affect the price so you can buy more
- Or you don't understand the concept nowhere close how well you think you do

Economies of scale at play.

If visa had 1/100th of the users, they still would have most of the costs and energy expenditure related - since their main energy expenditure is not the computing power.

Bitcoin is still small - just wait until it grows a bit more, since the energy expenditure per transaction expands by the hashing over and nothing else. It will eventually level off.

Besides, this point is moot.
The operational differences in bitcoin as a value totally exceeds the expenditure in energy consumption.

Unless you happen to be one of those who likes their money depreciating, arbitrary limitations, someone snooping on your payments and very high transaction costs

there were communicators back in the 90s too, N900 would be like the 5th gen or so

and this in question is not about lifetime, but maximizing efficiency and power output.
Later on, a consumer version will be detuned to 200kW or less, and last that required 150k miles or so, since it's going into a sports car, the lifetime target for that engine is going to be 200k kilometers. BMW uses this target for the M series, after that 200k kilometers, each cheaper to replace the whole engine buying new from factory than to rebuild since everything is so worn out.
Those engines still function, produces power etc. but efficiency is to shit, emissions are shit too.

Detuned to 200kW the lifetime expectancy of this engine will probably go upwards by many many orders of magnitude, and will probably reach the 200k kilometers.
Since this is so lightweight and such a high power output, it's going in to a hot hatch most likely.

Ofc, manufacturing costs might need material replacements, and further detuning of the engine, but i'd bet they'd make it upwards of 150kW - nothing spectacular, but the saved 100kg is very spectacular.

Yea and 730+ from 1.6 4AGE engines. One CA18DET from Nissan 200SX is widely known to produce about 730whp as well, so about 780 from the crank.

4AGE is considered very lightweight at 110-120kg, add turbo etc. to it for 10-20kg.

Damn right!
And this goes for servers as well.

The bulk of nodes we sell are *first gen* ATOM. Yeah, first gen. And they idle mostly, since our workload is I/O intensive, not CPU.
Even the highend gear we purchase is 2 gens old - but it's still higher end than the last high end gear.

1U Dual Quad Xeon L5520 with 72Gb ram and less than 500$ and room for 4x3.5"? Who could resist that, when we used to pay close to 200$ per month for a Xeon W3560, 32G Ram with 2x2Tb drives.
And the CPUs offer more more power than the Xeon W3560, which was introduced a year earlier, yet those W3560 nodes were purchased just 1½ years ago from a vendor.
The Dual Quad Xeons sit 95% idle -> so they don't consume that much power neither.

At home, i have a Core2Extreme 9770 with just 8G ram as my workstation - only lately has the CPU started to *nearly* max out, but i have laying around a spare FX6100 with 32Gb ECC i'll install some day when i can be arsed to. Still using that old of a CPU, and i'm not in any hurry to upgrade neither.

Indeed, at the end of they what matters for 80%+ is the 80% of users - ie. Average Joes.
Very few people purchase the very top of the line, it makes absolutely no sense to pay triple for marginal gains - even if comparing within the intel brand. For a very few people it does make sense however.

We use quite a few AMD products in our DC - they are very solid, and very nice performance to price ratio.
Because AMD is not as much used, we don't have the multitude of choices, but the highest end difference is:

Intel:
Intel D2500CCE: Dual NIC integrated, 4Gb RAM Max
Mobo: ~75€ RAM: ~25€
Total: 100€
Power: ~20W
Cost per Gb of Ram: 25€

Intel system which compares:
Intel DH61AG Mobo ~90€, CPUs begin at 150€ (low power version), 25€ 19V Powersupply
RAM: 16Gb So-Dimm as new 110€
Total: ~375€ fluctuates depending upon supply (low power version supply fluctuates badly)
Power: ~40W
Cost per Gb of RAM: 23.44€

AMD:
E350 from Gigabyte: 16Gb RAM Max but needs additional NIC
Mobo: varies GREATLY from 50€ to 65€, RAM ~90€, Additional NIC: 7€
Total: 157€ average
Power: ~30W
Cost Per Gb of RAM: 9.81€

So the AMD motherboard falls in the middle very nicely, since we deal in DATA the only figure at the end of the day what matters is RAM/€.
Also the price customers are willing to pay depends solely on storage + ram, not the cpu itself.

I haven't looked on CPU power metric at all - don't care. Even the D410 atoms in our use are like 80% idle, it's all I/O per euro what matters, so bulk of our cost is in disks, ram and networking.

However, intel is better on Wattage and Size metrics on the very low end, but this is mostly because AMD is not simply used as widely, so there isn't the niche boards available, AMD E350 board choices are *very* limited and supply is *very* limited as well.

However, in the past when we used Dual Opteron servers from a 3rd party DC, i want it curious that none of them actually worked, almost every one had broken CPUs, most of them crashed randomly etc. So i'm thinking the game was rigged at some level. They eventually removed AMD option completely, as only 10% of the servers worked.
On our own DCs, the AMD gear has worked brilliantly, except where game is rigged. We tried to do software router using AMD CPU, turns out the game is heavily rigged towards Intel as Intel is the one developing the software routing codebase, many generations older Core2Duo was faster than FX6100, further only Intel NICs provided actual performance.

Only way to properly compare the pricing is to include mobo, cpu, ram and gpu.
No other way around that.

So in other words: People are the issue.

Lol

Yea, genius and madness tend to go hand in hand - same traits cause both. There's been research into it, and if i recall right they pretty much concluded it's almost like flip sides of a coin.

History shows us as well, many geniuses of our past were... A bit out of their mind, but because of that they are also geniuses -> they think about things no one else would, they see those things differently and approach differently.

I believe part of the reason genius minds go a bit mad, or some genius persons seems very obnoxious is because everyone else seems to stupid, and it gets so insanely frustfrating when people cannot understand what seems basic logic from the POV of the genius, and you have to deal with it every single F* day, but from the POV of the genius there is just so many morons.

Bottomline is - if they are a bit out of their mind, or seemingly completely bonkers - we should be glad and thankfull, because that is the person who is likely to come to a solution to a very hard problem concerning few or many, pushing our civilization forwards.
Also because people fight against them calling "bullshit" at their "crazy inventions", they have to proof beyond shadow of doubt this is better, while it sucks for the genius it is better for civilization as a whole

If he'd sign a message using the wallet that is known to be owned by him...

Ever since 2.96 it's been crappier by every version. I still usually download the 2.96 TO DATE, because the newer ones are such crap, bloated adware shit.

2.96 was simple, yet powerfull, enough features but not bloated. Worked as a MP3 player brilliantly.
Then came the stupid trying to play video shit (thus loosing your playlist), the GUI was changed to bloatware etc.

I did a mistake on last system setup -> i installed the latest. Now every now and then when watching netflix or videos on VLC -> it jumps out on top of everything. Yay, that's EXACTLY what i wanted.

So - in other words, you are saying, excel requires less than 40ms latency? watching a remote movie requires less than 40ms latency? Wow, did netflix just take fiber to everyhome to achieve that?

40ms being the usual latency or there abouts for adsl 2 to a geographically nearby server.
if you allow 70ms you can go as far as from northern europe to central europe etc.

If the latency is below 41.67ms - it's imperceivable visually.

Does Counter Strike require less than 40ms latency? Yes and No. Many people played fine with cable with it's 60-70ms latency, and most people have 40ms latency nowadays. But i wish for the ADSL gen1 days with 15ms latency - it did make a difference.
But if you have sufficiently good remote desktop code: Your latency is just above the network latency, so if you have 40ms latency, you might have 45ms if it's sufficiently good, if you are playing on remote desktop local server, that has less than 0.5ms latency, depending upon the number of switches between. Most likely less than 0.15ms latency - makes no difference anymore.

So why wouldn't it work?

It's a mental handicap why you think it's can't work!

one problem: Supply barely fluctuates.
It is adjusted every 2 weeks, when there is vast network growth, supply is temporarily higher yes, when the network shrinks, the supply is temporarily lower yes, but the fluctuation during normal times is smalelr than you expect - maybe 20%.
So one hour you might get 150 bitcoins, while another makes only 100.
also the supply is about to go down, until maximum of 21mil is reached.

Actually supply is limited by 125 new bitcoins per hour, or well, slightly more, but adjusted to by weekly.

If you need the bitcoins today, you will spend that 400$.
Mining -> Difficulty raises constantly etc. to get that bitcoin, you might need to spend 2 years mining for it, account for electricity, hw and time in the cost. Easily winds up cosnting more than 400$