Nobody can mine Bitcoin with a home PC anymore.

This financial crisis was coming sooner or later and the virus was just the pin that pricked it. The bad part is that these crooks will get way with it now blaming the virus for this pain that is caused by the giant debt bubble the blew up exploding in their faces.

I cycle to work most days but if it is raining I usually catch the bus. Last few weeks I have cycled in the rain to avoid being on the bus.

All these things are caused by arseholes, not the web.

But it should be taught at school so the kids who are good coders get exposed. Hardly anybody uses calculus in adult life but we teach it to kids.

The MiSTer is a self contained computer. Out of the box the DE10 Nano board can run Linux on it's dual core ARM process and it can many FPGA recreations after a simple install to the SD card. The addition of a $20 SDRAM module allows you to run all FPGA cores over HDMI. The extra hardware is only necessary for analogue outputs if you need old CRT and audio outputs.

I disagree. I spend way more time getting stuck in a just one more go loop on old games that modern PC or PlayStation games. Spectrum games are way below the level of game I play, mostly arcade, SNES, Genesis or Neo Geo.

No I didn't, I know the Spectrum Next is more than just a Spectrum. My point is that you get more from a MiSTer FPGA than a Spectrum Next.

I watched Nostalgia Nerd's one hour video on the thing and I would still say that a MiSTer FPGA is a better investment.

If you want to play with an FPGA speccy your money would be way better spent on a DE10 Nano and a ram module then not only do you have a cycle accurate recreation of a speccy but you also have cores for SNES, NES, Neo Geo, PC Engine, Master System, Genesis, Amiga, C64, Vic 20, Mac, 486 and heaps of others including many arcade systems. More expensive than a Pi and you can't run as many systems but you get a much more accurate simulation of the target system than with most emulators and no lag. Check out the MiSTer project at https://github.com/MiSTer-deve...

That's a nope for me

You still need miners to write the blocks to the blockchain. Without miners the security of the blockchain diminishes and a 50% attack becomes trivial. The end of blcok rewards is not the end of mining, you need to be mining to get transaction fees.

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Marsy McMarsface

Don't waste your time learning legacy stuff unless you have taken a job supporting a legacy app. Otherwise you are spending time that would be way more beneficial to be spend on modern patterns.