Cybercriminals who breached Nvidia issue one of the most unusual demands ever

Post by FridgeSeal » Sat, Mar 05, 2022, 4:39 AM UTC

vmception wrote: post #471

FridgeSeal wrote: post #178

> We decided to help mining and gaming community," Lapsus$ members wrote Oh please. You have crypto and a vested interest in making GPU’s viable again. Sorry but I have zero sympathy-crypto miners exacerbated the silicon shortage and leveraged their increased capital to make consumer cards so inordinately difficult to get. So no, suffer.

Much more likely they don’t have crypto and want to earn it with the excess gpus they have A balance of crypto is unrelated to the mining market, but i understand that was an impassioned response where all things crypto are in the bad bucket in your mind I’m writing more so for anybody passing by that doesnt understand how they’re separate

Post by eru » Sat, Mar 05, 2022, 5:17 AM UTC

selfportrait wrote: post #576

eru wrote: post #222

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> Yes, real world mining is a serious offender, but that doesn’t exempt crypto mining. Agreed, they have essentially nothing in common apart from the name. > Have one look at one photograph of a crypto mining farm for one second and this will be obvious to anyone. Why? You can get pretty bad pictures of eg factory farming, too; still that doesn't mean people will stop eating factory farmed meat. > On the point of dou…

> Agreed, they have essentially nothing in common apart from the name. I don’t know if it’s your English, but you just said you agreed that crypto mining is an offender on the level of other forms of mining. > Why? You can get pretty bad pictures of eg factory farming, too; still that doesn't mean people will stop eating factory farmed meat. Except there are people who stop eating meat, reduce their intake, and there…

Post by FridgeSeal » Sat, Mar 05, 2022, 5:24 AM UTC

smokey_circles wrote: post #68

squarefoot wrote: post #4

I would rather outlaw cryptocurrencies for being a harm for the planet with their crazy energy demands, besides also fueling criminals.

I'd like to engage with this opinion because I genuinely have no idea how this is the conclusion people reach (that crypto is bad for the environment). The configuration of transistors through which electrons are punched is obviously not the problem (at least I hope it's obvious). So it must be about proof of work chains, right? That they create high demand? That's about the only point I do understand, but I think yo…

Post by matheusmoreira » Sat, Mar 05, 2022, 5:39 AM UTC

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Nextgrid wrote: post #479

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I'd argue it's the opposite. Crypto is fairly easy to avoid as an individual - the only thing I can think of that crypto has "contaminated" is GPU prices. Otherwise, don't get involved and just watch and laugh at the dumpster fire from a safe distance. You don't have to get involved in crypto to participate in society. Advertising on the other hand is very hard to avoid, and even blocking the ads themselves doesn't i…

Crypto is easy to avoid "for now". The endgame for crypto is tokenizing everything in some peoples eyes. Video game skins become NFTs that you now "own" instead of just being in-game. So you can transfer them around, sell them on composable markets etc. Assuming things actually get worked out you could see a merging of the digital and physical worlds assets. If this a good thing, or will even happen who knows.

Post by matheusmoreira » Sat, Mar 05, 2022, 5:50 AM UTC

korse wrote: post #436

tyjen wrote: post #409

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This comment chain made me envision a potentially terrible future direction. Imagine a future where websites force people to consent to allowing them use your device to mine cryptocurrency while you use its services or browse its content instead of ads.

Isn't that the Brave browser?