Yep lack of crypto makes it dog slow for so many things. Including running a little Monero node or whatever.

I would love to know why they chose to exclude this, it couldn’t make a big difference in price could it?

> Yep lack of crypto makes it dog slow for so many things. Including running a little Monero node or whatever.

Good.

The last thing we need is profit mad crypto miners buying up every single Pi and we end up with shortages and insane prices just like with gaming GPUs.

He said node not miner. There is no way a Pi even with AES could possibly be worth running as a miner.

Running a node is about seeding the chain not mining, ofc.

Also a free market means people can do with the stuff they buy as they wish.

Whether I mine on it or stick it up my arse is just as valid as you gaming.

Doesn't change the fact I'm glad they excluded features that make it unfavourable to crypto people - for any reason - so that I can buy a pi for what it's intended for at a decent price instead of wondering if people are buying them to shove them up their arse.

Crypto extensions will never make the rpi even remotely cost competitive with even very old GPUs.

The main advantage will be general network ops.

Just because I don't want to shove a rasberry pi up my arse doesn't mean I'm closed minded.

> Whether I mine on it or stick it up my arse is just as valid as you gaming.

I now understand why the Pi Zero comes standard without the GPIO header.

Well, that's no fun.