Bitmain, the largest mining hardware company, made around $4B last year

Re:Bitmain, the largest mining hardware company, made around... by umanwizard on Friday February 23, 2018 @11:13PM (#16451624)

What of value has bitcoin mining (or for that matter, anything relating to bitcoin) produced?

DRM makes it harder to pirate, which is something of value in my opinion.

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Re:Bitmain, the largest mining hardware company, made around... by wz1000 on Saturday February 24, 2018 @01:39AM (#16452088)

If bitcoin has zero value, DRM has negative value.

DRM doesn't make it harder to pirate. DRM makes it infinitely more attractive to pirate.

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Re:Bitmain, the largest mining hardware company, made around... by aianus on Saturday February 24, 2018 @01:12AM (#16452015)

Bitcoin (well, its descendants now) makes my international money transfers dirt cheap while DRM prevents me from using media that I paid for on my favorite devices.

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Re:Bitmain, the largest mining hardware company, made around... by undersuit on Friday February 23, 2018 @11:53PM (#16451748)

I think it's highly disingenuous to feign that bitcoin has no value.

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