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It's actually the temperature cycling that's far worse for them. Plenty of available reading on cryptocurrency mining forums.

>I'm legitimately worried about the long term future of my hobby (PC gaming) The equipment required for gaming loses value very quickly. Old 7970's released in 2012 command amazing…

Highly recommend Four Fish by Paul Greenberg, does a good job showing all sides of the fishing industry and the projected future if we keep going the same way. https://www.goodread…

To bypass paywall, no facebook account needed, drop into console or a bookmark (HN formatting weird, zerobin text there anyway): javascript:window.location=" https://m.facebook.com…

A huge amount of hashpower was behind the desire for bitcoin cash, and that didn't work out. Think some underestimate firstmover advantage and end-user inertia.

And how much computational power will that need?

From the article: Taught that in case of a real attack the US would have gone on an all-out offensive, Petrov told his bosses the alarm must have been caused by a system malfunctio…

Current choices seem to be NIST SP-800-22, DieHarder and Test U01, all of which certainly overlap. Why is there no battery of tests that includes standards developed by different c…

The only proven countermeasure so far is delegated proof of stake, which has "trusted" parties doing the staking. But this goes against the idea of decentralisation. Some people wo…

There's huge energy oversupply in Sichuan province, you can't just keep storing hydropower infinitely, it has to be released to protect the dams. All this outrage is misguided, the…

Most garbage collection in Australia has a camera to inspect bin contents and catch people abusing the recycling system. It's been in place for a decade now. https://www.news-mail.…

Multi-gpu systems are why graphics cards are scarce.

To download all books at once: https://gist.github.com/graymouser/a33fbb75f94f08af7e36 Improved *nix version further down the thread Change "MOBI" to "PDF"/"EPUB" if desired

Shhh, plenty of humble books are easily found, but they do good work and provide quality content.

If some of these projects go on to produce open source software of worth it won't all be for nothing. Associating the ERC-20 protocol with the current mania and nonsense of cryptoc…

Care to elaborate how China has banned it? Last time i was there I had no problem using VPN, and a dozen or so services that utilise encryption, PGP didn't magically stop working t…

Done by a government with proper legal oversight it certainly has its place and easily will be a net positive for society. Though lawmakers seem to be oblivious to tech advances mo…

Nameless resumes are a good way to counter the inefficiencies of a system not based on merit.

>compared to the use of finite stores of value Ethereum has no cap on supply. Bitcoin is capped at 21m coins.

As long as all the entry/exit points are regulated and in line with the government, Bitcoin is perfect for a country obsessed with capital controls. Far easier to monitor than cash…

dont all early adopters usually win out? except of course for the multitudes that fail.

By what means? If you can send and receive tcp packets you can be on the bitcoin network. I'd be intrigued how you think a government is going to shutdown a FOSS project with no le…

Most companies don't issues millions of new shares everyday