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Re:Bitcoin’s Price Was Artificially Inflated Last Year, Rese... by vokep on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @08:08PM (#17308153)
Actually it may be more worth it than most energy sucking things.

If it becomes an actual currency, the proof-of-work system will put everyone in an arms race of power/compute efficiency unlike any other.

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Re:Bitcoin’s Price Was Artificially Inflated Last Year, Rese... by RIMR on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @08:15PM (#17308181)
That's actually a great point.

FPGA and GPU development has been granted quite the stimulus package from the crypto craze.

There are secondary benefits to this technology.

I bet the economic incentive got a lot more people into coding than before too.

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