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Re:Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cuts the hash rate of RTX-3... by JumpCrisscross on Friday February 19, 2021 @12:06AM (#26189980)
> gold was created by a supernova

This is a tangent, but it's more fun than the usual Bitcoin fetishizing and bashing.

There is building evidence that neutron star collisions, not supernovae, are the primary source of the universe's gold [1].

[1] https://www.quantamagazine.org/did-neutron-stars-or-supernov...

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Re:Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cuts the hash rate of RTX-3... by minitoar on Friday February 19, 2021 @12:07AM (#26189984)
Wow thank you. This is the sort of content I come here for.
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Re:Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cuts the hash rate of RTX-3... by brian_cunnie on Friday February 19, 2021 @10:08AM (#26193950)
And there's a great PBS spacetime video exclusively covering the creation of heavy elements, and why they no longer think it's solely the result of supernovae [0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmgMboWunkI

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