There is a cryptocurrency that was brought into existence with the SECs regulations in mind. It is called Chia. It fails the howey test as well.

Yes, Bitcoin's energy usage has been a known problem for a long time now. Take a look at the Chia Blockchain with it's 'Proof of Space and Time' algorithm. It has some BTC maxis pretty riled up over on the twitter.

wow bro slippery slope.

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Where is Phineas Fisher when you need him

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Have they tried turning it off and on again?

both fast hard drives and slower hard drives have their place in the chia farming process. Fast hard drives for 'plotting' ie, creating the cryptographic proofs on the storage. Slower ones for storage of them 'farming'. I plot on NVME and SSD then transfer them to high capacity spinning plater drives.

it amazes me that AMD/NVIDIA didn't embrace the people that wanted their products. I hope the storage manufacturers do and use the opportunity to put some more money into R&D and improve their space. like, shut up and take my money... what am I missing? Shouldn't all this money flowing to these GPU/Storage/etc industries help their companies to develop better technologies faster?

Its not in the box.... Its in the band.

I've seen wine run IE6 before