my 64GB RAM kit purchased for just over $200 last year is just over $1000 now.

The reality is hard drives die, for cloud providers they die or are aged out in the hundreds of thousands every year. Even if no new demand for storage exists (highly unlikely) the drives will still be used.

to be clear. What was recovered was NOT all the crypto. What happened was that between the insolvency and refund of 120% the value of the remaining crypto skyrocketted enough to refund everyone. This was not a vindication and still saw the investors get significantly less than the current value of the crypto.

pardons are for murderers, large scale drug dealers and celebrities, he doesn't qualify under any of them for Trump.

I think if AI were writing the stories we would have a lot less trash movies, or at least they could not do any worse than the fucktards they have writing hollywood scripts now.

They all disappointed as they all had very weak story lines. AI is no different to how they have used special effects or big name actors in the past. They hope it would distract enough from the fucking awful script writing quality

millions? try hundreds of millions if not billions.

there are multiple classes of gambling, While poker is skill based, the majority are chance based and bitcoin definitely falls on the chance based side of gambling as you are hoping that more fools enter the market than leave the market. Gold and Silver both have intrinsic underlying value due to their use in everything from jewelry, electronics, medicines and a thousand other critical components that are used every day due to the unique properties of gold and silver, Bitcoin has zero value outside being a virtual asset.

Youth have NOT adopted bitcoin at all. In fact if anything the youth of today completely and utterly avoid its use, it serves no purpose to them.

Crypto appealed to a lot of peoples greed when they thought there was tremendous upside to buying. That upside idea has really diminished if not evaporated, even as stagnant store of value bitcoin is very unappealing. It is a crap method for payments and has no intrinsic value. Even for criminal purposes it is getting dicey as the authorities are much better at tracing it now, even through tumblers and the various worldwide agreements on sharing tax information means it is not a good way to dodge tax either.

If it is being targetted at specific industries then it is by definition NOT a Universal Basic income

When you select something where it says it is local you expect6 the item in a couple of days, when you get a shipping notice for China or a number of other countries it can be weeks before what you bought arrives. it is a big issue when you are trying to get something quickly.

yep even Biden threatened countries that looked to limit foreign tech. While Trump might be more incompetent and clueless in his push, both sides are guilty of abusing their access to world trade and economies.

any decent computer algorithm will be many times better at spotting a scam than the average person.

They are a business their primary purpose is profit, however they make that profit through saving lives. The US is determined to devalue life therefore no profit.