I'd think anyone with a basic understanding of finance and economics would be able to see that the entire idea is absurd. What's the value, the amount of electricity wasted on processing pointless calculations? All for the purpose of what, having a currency that isn't issued by a government? That just means there's no productive value supporting its fiat, just the consumption of electricity. Which means, the value of cryptocurrency is based on consumption, not production.

Every other currency is based either on production (modern fiat) or utility (metals). Crypto is based on wasting something better used elsewhere, like making real things that have actual value. Or keeping me cool in the summer.

Now that I think of it, I have a similar issue with metal currencies. Gold, silver, and copper are wasted on coinage. Their industrial use is far more worthwhile.

But at $4 per hectare? I think that's still far less than what they could get from developing the land. You'd have to be a pretty poor farmer to make less than $4 off of an entire hectare (10,000 m^2). And if the government doesn't make $4 off the taxes... I don't know what to say. Maybe some desperate governments will see the lump sum and take the deal, but from a basic economic standpoint this doesn't look promising.

Wouldn't the governments have more work to do? Maybe they're issuing permits now, but with this they'd have to actively monitor activity around the forests and prevent trees from being cut down.

And are you saying that the value of doing nothing (which is generally worth nothing) is greater than the value of short-term development, or that development is only valuable in the short term? A claim which will require considerable explanation, as it makes little sense.

I almost sat on my cat the other day. He was curled up next to my wife, under a pillow. He's not a very big cat, despite being full grown. My other cat is much bigger. Both of them are smaller than my dogs, but the pups are intimidated by them. The samller cat plays with them sometimes, the larger cat doesn't play with anybody, ever. She's quite stoic. Not very kid-friendly, sadly. She has a bad habit of smacking toddlers in the head just for walking past.

I don't know what you're talking about either.

Yeah. Now I need to think about getting an RTX 50 instead of waiting for the 60's. At least the 50s are already built, so no worries about expensive memory increasing the price.

Well, then I'm disappointed in Hynix. I assume Samsung isn't increasing production because they're trying to figure out how to run ads on chips. Maybe replacing m2 heat spreaders with little LCDs?

But seriously, that sounds like a pretty decent explanation. Thanks.

No Mosquito or Me110?

That got mentioned:

Ever hear of Capital Letters? You begin sentences with them. For example, this. Or this.

Without them, you just look like you're too emotionally wrought to slow down your rant, which does not reflect well upon you.

Because people can't possibly change their minds. And they never, ever realize that they were wrong or were misled and respond accordingly.

Because you would NEVER demonize Republicans.

Do you have evidence or is that just speculation treated as fact?

It could just be as simple as him deciding it doesn't matter if the head of NASA is a Democrat.

Why do you think that money printing is how the rich get rich?

And we know that you "can't just print money to end poverty", because it has been tried. Every time it has been tried, the result was an economic collapse. Most of which led to very unpleasant people being able to take over. Germany and Italy in the 1920's are particularly important examples, but you'll also find examples in South America, Africa and China.

Nah, put a hole down the center of the chip, where the heat will be concentrated, and pipe it out.