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Re:One Bitcoin miner is buying 20,000 16nm wafers from TSMC ... by mike4921 on Monday January 22, 2018 @10:28PM (#16210730)
I love it! For all the bad things bitcoin has brought, I have to say it makes me feel like I'm living in a cyberpunk novel! Snow Crash...Neuromancer.... I think people are focusing on all the negatives and overlooking all the fascinating aspects of whats going on. The internet has basically spontaneously created an interesting and suspicious technology. I think it's really only been possible thanks to the increasingly effective and available means of energy production, such that almost a consumer commodity.

Neal Stephenson, if you're reading this, this would make an amazing sci-fi novel.

Re:One Bitcoin miner is buying 20,000 16nm wafers from TSMC ... by pbw on Monday January 22, 2018 @10:36PM (#16210758)
I think I've heard various sci-fi authors grousing it's hard to write these days because reality is so sci-fi and outlandish (Trump).