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Re:How badly is cryptocurrency worsening the chip shortage? by rcxdude on Friday November 12, 2021 @12:37PM (#29202163)
It could, but would it be worth anything? Miners only mine because they can sell the crypto to others for more than it cost to mine it. At current levels that would require quite a lot of buyers for this new coin with no significant advantages over the main branch.
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Re:How badly is cryptocurrency worsening the chip shortage? by gbba on Friday November 12, 2021 @02:09PM (#29203324)
It'd be worth less, but not entirely worthless. I think ETC is a good example of what happens on a deprecated branch.
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