Worthless propaganda lies that have no effect except to placate the gullible.

What else is new. This is not even worth reporting. Will also not have any impact, they are just pretending to do something to satisfy their billionaire Epstein-class backers.

It is cheaper than running traditional numbers stations (which are still around) and it is really not that well hidden.

Given that gold was basically never a good investment...

Yep. The whole thing is totally irrational on the side of people "investing" money in this. Stupid money on an impressive level. The ones still mining probably hope to recover their costs somehow, but they will probably not manage that. And, obviously, money laundering for crime is still keeping part of crapto working and will continue to do so for a while.

Problem is, "AI" is almost as bad and loses something like 80% of all new investments at the moment. That means they would need to increase profits by 10x or so, taking in the mountain id debt they effectively have to become profitable. Yet, for many uses the per-token prices are already far too high. Some "all in on LLMs" software makers find that hiring developers would be cheaper than letting "AI" do things. And that does not even really take the level of review needed or the far worse maintainability of the code into account.

And that situation is not getting better, but worse as people run into rather hard limits on LLM usefulness more and more often. The only LLMs variants that have a future are Small Language Models and they do not matter that much. They are just an incremental improvement to some things and they do not need insane hardware or energy at all.

Yes. Because the "trading" is so expensive and so slow that once it drops below a certain level, it stops working permanently. Unlike, say, penny-stocks.

Interesting. Lets see how long it will take for all the small-time stupid money to get a clue and cause it to crash.

Well, I guess we would need to get rid of the ample idiot population in the human race to eliminate crapto. And so the crime financing and money-laundering continues.

The real problem is that Europe and the rest of the world now knows the US has about 30% fundamentally mentally unstable voters and enough mentally incapable useful idiots to put whoever the unstable ones want in power. That can happen again, because even a completely incapable and deeply criminal fuckup like Trump is only a symptom. Hence nobody sane will ever rely on the US again and that will remain the state of things for a few decades. At the end of these decades, the US will probably be far below Russia (as of today) in economic power and incapable of fighting any wars in any larger distance.

Because they have nothing else left, they try direct lies. Yes, it happened. And yes, it was not only the chief prosecutor, it happened to at least one judge as well.

The only other explanation is that MicroShit broke their accounts and could not get them working again. That would be _worse_.

They are more insidious. They poison minds instead of water. As to the grooming gangs, you know that Trump has evangelical support, right? The idiot here is you.

Meaning totally worthless in this case.

Yes. Also remember that even really large nuclear reactors are not economically viable these days. Small ones will probably perform on the level of LLMs, i.e. some years until stupid investor money dries up and then total crash.

Maybe. Or not. That they reach this early milestone now just shows how disconnected the whole idea of fixing current problems with it is. Obviously, this test says nothing about economic viability and nuclear never had that. Even less so today.